The fight over immigration could decide the next election. Labor has to take the gloves off | Tom McIlroy

The government needs a brawler mentality to go after One Nation’s threadbare plan to slash overseas arrivals Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast After weeks of delay on his immigration announcement, Tony Burke appeared at the National Press Club with just a few pages of handwritten notes.

Burke’s speech on Thursday – pushed back due to internal politics within the Albanese government – was short on rhetoric and stuck mostly to explaining the changes designed to bring down net overseas migration (Nom), without knee-capping the economy.

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