restrict immigration from some majority muslim countries<\/a>.<\/p>\nHowever, Mr Albanese rejected the premise that voters were turning to One Nation because of concerns about migration from Islamic countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Australian covenant is that if people have any prejudice or hatred, that’s left at the customs hall when they arrive in Australia,\u201d he told Sky News Sunday Agenda.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverwhelmingly, Australians, regardless of what their faith is, who they are, what their background is, we overwhelmingly live in harmony in this country.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s important that people in positions of authority, including politicians, promote social cohesion.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than seek to gain political benefit through opportunistically trying to divide people and trying to raise fear.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what we do as a government is we’ll continue to work on social cohesion, that’s one of the things that the (Bondi Beach) Royal Commission will look at as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked whether Australia should \u201ctake less people or consider tighter checks\u201d, Mr Albanese insisted that the existing safeguards were sufficient.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have tight checks. This is something that politicians shouldn’t be allowed to say things that they know isn’t true,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause they know full well that we have checks on migration in this country and that we have checks on visas.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comments come as polling shows One Nation has grown increasingly trusted by voters on immigration and national security.<\/p>\n
According to the latest Australian Financial Review\/Redbridge Group\/Accent Research, 34 per cent of respondents rated One Nation as the best party on immigration.<\/p>\n
That was compared with 16 per cent for Labor, 13 per cent for the Liberals and 4 per cent for the Nationals.<\/p>\n
Immigration also ranked as the fifth top concern for voters, behind cost of living, healthcare and housing affordability, but ahead of crime and public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese has declared his government will \u201ccontinue to work on social cohesion\u201d, dismissing concerns there has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8932,16169,2324,64,8931,63,36974,9281,41476,249693,1788,249692,44,60504,14754],"class_list":{"0":"post-495496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-albanese","9":"tag-albanese-government","10":"tag-anthony-albanese","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-auspol","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-australian-politics","15":"tag-immigration","16":"tag-islam","17":"tag-islamic-countries","18":"tag-labor","19":"tag-labor-dismisses-immigration-concerns-about-islamic-countries","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-one-nation","22":"tag-pauline-hanson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}