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Immigration: the issue that won’t go away

20 July 2018

4:10 PM

20 July 2018

4:10 PM

With Australia’s population set to hurtle past the 25 million mark in August – decades earlier than predicted – there are renewed calls in Canberra for a significant reduction in the country’s sky-high immigration intake.

Western Australian Senator Dean Smith is the latest Coalition MP to publicly call for a slowdown in immigration, which is presently running in excess of 220,000 a year – one of the largest per capita intakes in the world.

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