Labor has accused the Coalition of importing Trump-style culture wars to damage Australia’s international migration program, defending tight controls on overseas arrivals and blaming conservative MPs including Andrew Hastie for “dog whistling”.

Labor’s assistant minister for citizenship and multicultural affairs, Julian Hill, will tell a major conference in Melbourne on Friday that opposition attacks on net overseas migration ignore the fact many skilled workers stayed in Australia after the Covid-19 pandemic due to the strong labour market, and will challenge the Coalition to explain where it would make further cuts to the migration program. Australia’s immigration is not ‘out of control’ – it’s trending lower and has been for over a year Read more

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