The same people who clutch their pearls over the White Australia Policy, are openly defending the current Brown Australia Policy.

It’s estimated that 85/87% of permanent migrants to Australia in the last 5 years were of non European background.

We welcome immigration settings being debated in plain English, as Lidija has done. For too long it has been obfuscated with ‘housing, economy, skills, values’.

Close to two-thirds of Australians (63%) believe our migration program should prioritise migrants from places with shared values, which is specified as countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. A majority of all voter cohorts support this view, including non-citizens (Net +33) and First Generation migrants (Net +48).