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“Joining stand-in host Natassia Chrysanthos and chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal in a new Inside Politics episode with Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary of the immigration department.”

“"I think the problem is that whenever any party talks about immigration they use these sort of flashy headline numbers that … appeal hugely to people who want less immigration, terrify everybody who relies on immigration, and we get this sort of big swirling…”

“Mark Cully, an economist and author of Waves of Plenty: Immigration and the Making of Australia, says such a policy would be “unprecedented”.”

“With basic services struggling, why can’t Australians benefit from our gas exports as Norwegians and Omanis do?”

“On the cultural and political rationale, Abbott echoed One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce in saying the terror attack on December 14 last year lit the fuse for the current debate on migration.”