Two Liberal Ex-Leaders Call for Discrimination in Immigration. By Lachlan Leeming in The Australian.

Tony Abbott and Josh Frydenberg have both said Australia’s immigration program needs a drastic shake up, with the latter saying it should discriminate against those unwilling to accept Australian values.

“We have imported division. It’s very difficult for someone who believes…a caliphate or sharia law or…the leading role of the communist party, it’s very difficult for someone who sincerely believes that to honestly subscribe to the Australian citizenship oath,” Mr Abbott said, adding the country needs a “big reconsideration of our immigration program”

Mr Frydenberg added Australia’s “legal immigration program” needs to be treated “as a matter of self-defence”.

“I do believe….we need to move to a immigration policy which does discriminate,” Mr Frydenberg said.

“It discriminates on the basis of what’s in the national interest, and that is the type of person that we want in this country. It’s not a right to come to this country. It’s a privilege to come to this country, and we need to emphasize that. I thought Angus Taylor put it well when he said the numbers are too high and the standards are too low.

The Overton window is shifting, as One Nation’s polling numbers shoot up.

The Liberal Party is now articulating principles that can give the electorate what it wants. Islam is framed as one example among many (“someone who believes…a caliphate or sharia law or…the leading role of the communist party”). The Liberals do it with softer diplomatic language, quite different to the blunter language of Pauline Hanson, but will eventually arrive at much the same destination.

The big conundrum for the left — who want to continue with multiculturalism and mass migration and therefore need to stifle conflict by enacting hate speech laws — is that there is no hate speech law that outlaws dangerous speech that does not also outlaw the Koran and therefore Islam.