It is a very, very different place … we now are seeing an Australia which is divided on a range of grounds, some of them religious, some of them demographics of economics," Senator Antic told Sky News."I don't think Australians ever asked for what they saw in the footage [at the Lakemba mosque]."Net overseas migration has fallen from its peak of 755,000 over the year to September 2023, after borders reopened post-pandemic, to about 306,000 last financial year.But while the migration rate has fallen close to pre-COVID levels, the issue remains a priority for voters, the majority of whom, according to Lowy Institute polling, say remains too high.On Friday, Shadow Immigration Minister Jonno Duniam said while the migration rate had returned to its long-term average, Australia needed time for infrastructure and services to catch up."It'd be fine to bring those people in if you had put in place the houses, the hospital beds, the schooling places, the roads and rail needed for them to get about efficiently, all of that would be fine But the reality is we haven't," Senator Duniam told 2GB."We've got to catch up with what people in this country need in order to preserve the way of life we have."Australia however also faces a shortage of workers in critical fields, including health care and housing construction, and is reliant on migration to fill those gaps.The Coalition campaigned at the 2025 federal election with a promise to slash migration to ease pressure on housing, and suffered the worst defeat in its history at that election.