Australia politics live: racist anti-immigration rallies were exploited by neo-Nazis to ‘prey on legitimate concerns’, Anne Aly says

Minister for multicultural affairs says she’s glad the anti-immigration rallies didn’t draw big crowds. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastShadow immigration minister says Coalition support ‘sustainable’ migrationAsked about the Coalition’s own migration policy, Scarr says he supports a “sustainable” level of migration.That looks like considering things like skill shortages, considering things like our humanitarian intake. Australia has always had a generous humanitarian intake for decades and decades.Net overseas migration obviously was in negative territory during Covid, and then we had these huge increases during the first two years of the Albanese government, and that has distorted, in many respects, the debate.We just need to be terribly careful when we’re discussing issues such as immigration, that the fringes, the extremes don’t get a foothold in the debate.I think when we see neo-Nazis address a crowd of people in some of our major cities that raises material concerns with respect to social cohesion in our country. Continue reading...

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