Taylor’s Trumpian immigration pitch is aimed at fighting One Nation – but puts Australia’s identity at stake

The Coalition might be in opposition to Labor but it is hoping to stem its loss of voters to Pauline Hanson

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It was not long ago that the notion of Australia as the world's most successful multicultural country was not just a bipartisan political position but a source of national pride, expressed as enthusiastically by Liberals as their Labor counterparts.

I believe, no, I know that Australia is the most successful multicultural immigration country on the planet," the then Liberal prime minister, Scott Morrison, told the National Press Club in 2021.