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On Sunday, immigration and multicultural affairs minister Tony Burke hosted a large citizenship ceremony at Olympic Park. The ceremony was one of several around the country recently, at which around 12,500 people have become citizens.

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Opposition leader Peter Dutton, Sky News and Liberal senators have accused Burke of trying to get thousands of new migrants on the electoral roll before the next election. Dutton singled out Palestinians at Sky’s deranged “antisemitism summit” last week, saying falsely that Labor was “[bringing] people in from a war zone without the requisite checks on a tourist visa” and that people were “[receiving] citizenship before the proper security checks have been undertaken”.

Obviously, all this is horseshit. There is no evidence of anyone, from anywhere, getting citizenship before having lawfully lived in Australia for at least four years. As Crikey’s Bernard Keane points out, the idea that left-wing political and social forces (include the Labor Party in this for argument’s sake) are engineering mass immigration for political ends is just the white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory with a local flavour. Strangely, none of the “antisemitism summit’s” attendees have publicly raised concerns about that.