Former Labor luminary and immigration minister Mick Young hit the nail on the head when he told a group of Indochinese refugees in the early 1980s that if you were a fan of immigration, you would keep both the number and makeup of the intake at levels with which the community was comfortable.

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It's not rocket science.

We have built one of the most peaceful democracies in the world (not that there are many).

Why put that social cohesion at risk? Even more to the point, immigration goes to the heart of who we are. We are

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