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“The vast majority of Australians support immigration and multiculturalism despite more feeling poorer – and increasingly pessimistic and distrustful of government, the annual Scanlon report on social cohesion has revealed.”

“Majority of Australians now say immigration is too high Another of the survey’s most significant year-on-year findings is on immigration, the subject of increasingly heated debate in Canberra.”

“The findings come amid a profound realignment of Australian politics, with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation surging in national opinion polls, the major parties struggling to retain voters and fierce debates over immigration, antisemitism and social cohesion…”

“Joining stand-in host Natassia Chrysanthos and chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal in a new Inside Politics episode with Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary of the immigration department.”

“"I think the problem is that whenever any party talks about immigration they use these sort of flashy headline numbers that … appeal hugely to people who want less immigration, terrify everybody who relies on immigration, and we get this sort of big swirling…”

“When MPs debated the Federation bill, they were deciding not just who would be let into Australia, but who would be allowed to become Australian.”

“If ever there was a fake news item, then our so-called major immigration issue is it.”

“Anyone trying to weigh the so-called “immigration debate” should spend some time in an Australian hospital.”

“…stripes come under pressure to appease public anxiety about immigration, a 10-year analysis of lower migration scenarios using Parliamentary Budget Office tools exposes the economic and fiscal consequences of blunt measures to bring fewer people to the…”

“LoadingImmigration retreat also one from Asia Given the temper of our immigration debate, perhaps the least popular argument one can make right now is for Australia to get bigger.”

“Immigration has become the convenient answer to every difficult question in Australian politics.”

“Mark Cully, an economist and author of Waves of Plenty: Immigration and the Making of Australia, says such a policy would be “unprecedented”.”

“With basic services struggling, why can’t Australians benefit from our gas exports as Norwegians and Omanis do?”

“On the cultural and political rationale, Abbott echoed One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce in saying the terror attack on December 14 last year lit the fuse for the current debate on migration.”

“As the grandson of one of Australia’s most famous and most successful immigrants it feels like it’s my duty to make an intervention into the debate around the significance of immigration in the cultural, social and economic fabric of this country.”