The far right obviously hijacked the recent Marches for Australia in an attempt to garner support for a sinister racist and anti-progressive agenda on other things such as climate change, guns, employment, gender policies and so on.
But equally, the selfish property-retail-employer group seized on the threat from the far right to beguile progressives into thinking that the only way to counter the racism and the far-right agenda is to support high immigration.
And the progressive left fell for it, falling in line with the illogical idea that supporting high immigration is a progressive, non-racist thing to do.
Estimates vary, but about a net 1.2 million and 1.8 million people have emigrated to Australia in the past four years.
Views about this vary: valuable people are coming to do hi