Conservative Liberals want to use immigration to bludgeon Labor. But it’s bad politics, and bad on principle

Conservative Liberals want to use immigration to bludgeon Labor. But it’s bad politics, and bad on principle

Attacking multicultural Australia will only further alienate the party from the voters they need to win backGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter the defeat of the Howard government and before he’d turn Australian politics on its head as Liberal leader, Tony Abbott wrote a memoir-manifesto entitled Battlelines.Just like his latest book, Australia: a history, the 2009 title traverses a huge span of the political landsca…