Guardian Australia | Labor MP warns Coalition position risks returning to days of White Australia policy — video @GuardianAustralia | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
The Labor MP for Holt, Cassandra Fernando, speaks about the dangers of trying to bring race back into the migration system.
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'The Whitlam government advanced this progress in the 1970s by dismantling the last remains of the White Australia policy,' she says in question time. 'Since then, our government and society have worked to build a multicultural Australia where everyone is respected, regardless of where they were born. Yet some in this chamber seem intent on reversing this progress, seeking to drag us back to the days of the White Australia policy'.

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