Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke front ABC’s Insiders on the weekend, where he admitted that immigration “needed to come down” but lambasted the ‘far right’ for using immigration as a “dog whistle” to destabilise social cohesion.
Burke’s salvo followed the release of two opinion polls in the previous week showing, yet again, that Australians do not support Labor’s historically high immigration.
Resolve Political Monitor’s polling of 1,800 Aussies from across the political spectrum on October 7 and 12 showed that 58% supported a “significant reduction” in migration levels, outnumbering those opposing immigration cuts 4-to-1:
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