It is sobering to realise that it is more than a quarter of a century since Pauline Hanson burst onto Australia’s national political stage with her provocative maiden speech which complained that “mainstream Australians” were being subjected to a form of “reverse racism” when it came to Aboriginal people, and that the nation was in danger of being “swamped by Asians”.
Governments have muddled through by offering huge numbers of temporary work visas to foreign arrivals. Bloomberg
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Corrects the potential economic cost of spending on living expenses alone by international students to $4 billion, not $14 billion as earlier published.
Laura Tingle is chief political correspondent for the ABC's 7.30 program. She is the staff-elected director of the ABC. Connect with Laura on Twitter.
