The far right obviously hijacked the recent Marches for Australia in an attempt to garner support for a sinister racist and anti-progressive agenda on other things such as climate change, guns, employment, gender policies and so on.

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But equally, the selfish property-retail-employer group seized on the threat from the far right to beguile progressives into thinking that the only way to counter the racism and the far-right agenda is to support high immigration.

And the progressive left fell for it, falling in line with the illogical idea that supporting high immigration is a progressive, non-racist thing to do.

Estimates vary, but about a net 1.2 million and 1.8 million people have emigrated to Australia in the past four years.

Views about this vary: valuable people are coming to do high-skilled jobs that Australia cannot train for; people are coming in to do the shitty jobs that Australians do not want to do; the Christian white culture of Australia is being destroyed; our jobs are being stolen; people are contributing to valuable cultural diversity; and so on.

All of them are mostly wrong or misguided.

We do not need to bring in 400,000 plus people a year to snare a few rocket scientists or even nurses - besides, what right do we have to steal other nations' talents, particularly nurses from poorer countries?

As to shitty jobs, if pay rates are right, people already here will do them. As to Christian repression, we have religious freedom in Australia; white Christians should have no fear.

As to stolen jobs, there are plenty of jobs; none are being "stolen". And we already have cultural diversity.

We have to look at this differently. The 1.2 million recent immigrants are here as permanent residents soon to be Australian citizens. The far-right US-inspired agenda of vilification is utterly abhorrent.

Looked at properly, we have a duty to these 1.2 million people. The duty is to ensure proper housing, healthcare, and education for them and their children.

High immigration adversely impacts recent migrants more than nearly any other group in Australia.

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