Good afternoon.A Liberal senator has broken ranks to criticise Angus Taylor’s plan to bar non-citizens from accessing welfare, warning it will create “two types of members of the community” and is “not the Australian way”.Outspoken backbencher Andrew McLachlan says migrants should not be blamed for economic problems including the housing crisis, and warns his party’s immigration rhetoric is alienating diaspora communities.The opposition leader brushed off his colleague’s concerns as he defended the use of the phrase “mass migration” to describe the rate of overseas arrivals.“It [the rhetoric] only alienates the government that has got it wrong, this is nothing to do with [migrant] communities,” Taylor told reporters on Tuesday.Taylor made immigration a centrepiece of his budget reply speech last week.Top news
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