While rightwing Australia scapegoats immigrants, the country directly benefits from our skills and labour | Zoya Patel

The idea that Australia is being mobbed by selfish foreigners is both entirely untrue and impossible I’m an immigrant. If you subscribe to the common rhetoric in mainstream news, and coming out of the mouths of rightwing politicians, my very existence here in Australia is in direct opposition to the success of “ordinary” (meaning white) Australians. Angus Taylor’s budget reply speech last week reinforced the widely held belief that Australia is being swarmed by immigrants, coming to take the ...

By Zoya Patel