With his federal budget reply, Peter Dutton is now playing deadly simple but very dangerous politics

From John Howard talking about Asian immigration in the 1980s to Stopping the Boats in 2013, there's always been a lot happening politically in that space.

The significance of a major political leader playing so divisive a card on our community is a step that shouldn't go unnoticed, no matter how inured to it we have become over the years in the wake of Pauline Hanson and "boat people" politics.In his budget reply, Peter Dutton tapped into the electorally emotive issues of housing and immigration. It was a logical path to take.

The Morrison government announced an almost identical cut in permanent migration numbers in the 2019 budget, saying the "planning level of the Migration Program will be reduced from 190,000 to 160,000 places for four years from 2019-20".But the very same 2019 budget papers were forecasting that net overseas migration would be 271,700 in 2019 before dropping ever so marginally to 271,300 in 2020 and then to 263,800 by 2022 .

Actually, no. That's the figure for 2022-23 in the budget papers, which say that in the financial year just ending, net overseas migration has already fallen back to 395,000.

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