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Sussan Ley talks about ‘Australian values’ in assessing migrants. What exactly does that mean?

By Kate Darian-Smith, Professorial Fellow in History, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne

The opposition leader is the latest in a long line of politicians who speak of ‘Australian values’. But it has long been a problematic idea.

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