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Immigration and its discontents.(Editorial)(Editorial)
IMMIGRATION REMAINS one of the most sensitive subjects of public debate both in Australia and in the world, along with the factitious issue of "asylum seekers", and attracts the same kind of irrational passions and mindless prejudices. The debate is muddied, deliberately, by those who for whatever ideological or other reasons wish to misrepresent the positions of their antagonists. It is possible to sensibly debate current and future levels of immigration without being either "for" or "against" immigration in general, but most of those who do are bundled into one category or another by the opponents.
The low point in this kind of thing was reached twenty years ...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 24, 1991 700+ words
...the best prospect for Australia. Australia has always been settled by immigration. its aborigines first...and is a large cause of Australia's relative decline...unemployment. Supporters of immigration are not standing for...
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- Best of mates? Australia. (immigration)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 30, 1992 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 30, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 11, 1994 700+ words
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Immigration boosts Australia's population growth...By the early 1990s immigration in Australia had become unpopular...to 9.3 million. Immigration has radically increased the size of Australia's population in...
- AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Australia's immigration po policy delivering positive...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire September 21, 1999 700+ words
...AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Australia's immigration policy delivering...continues to show that Australia's current approach to immigration is the right one...that with current immigration policy, and given...fertility rate, Australia's long-term...
