{"id":613833,"date":"2026-04-17T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:48:10","slug":"the-truth-about-australias-immigration-debate-in-six-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613833\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about Australia\u2019s immigration debate in six charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 18, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>For 30 years, One Nation has lived on the fringe of Australian politics. That\u2019s changed in the past six months with over a quarter of all voters willing to give Pauline Hanson their primary vote if an election were held today. In March, Redbridge pollsters were startled to see 40 per cent of voters nominate One Nation as the best party to deal with immigration \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5zjmk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than Labor, the Coalition and the Greens combined<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the Scanlon Foundation, which has tracked public sentiment on this issue for nearly 20 years, issued a report revealing a record 51 per cent of adults feel immigration levels are \u201ctoo high\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 18, 2026 \u2013 5.00am For 30 years, One Nation has lived on the fringe of Australian politics.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-613833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613833","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=613833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}