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Monday, 3 December 2018

Politicians may be panicking about immigration. Australians are not | David Marr

A heightened sense of crisis has shaken but not shattered our confidence in multiculturalism, reveals the Scanlon Foundation’s 2018 Mapping Social Cohesion Report

Australia has not lost faith in immigration. The political narrative has darkened but not the fundamental view of ourselves as an immigrant nation. Most of us remain convinced that we are in so many ways better off for newcomers of all races and creeds who have come in large numbers to our shores.

That is the verdict of the Scanlon Foundation’s 2018 Mapping Social Cohesion Report published on Tuesday. The mission of the foundation is to measure how this migrant nation hangs together. Over the last decade 48,000 of us have been polled to fathom the panics that sweep this country and the steady underlying views Australians have of immigration.

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How many of us ...

I think that John Howard was very successful in that mantra of 'we control who comes into this country'

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