Melbourne-based high school teacher Kusum Mirchandani has called Australia home for more than two decades.
“The migration rallies, they’re targeting the Indian community because now we are the largest migrant population here. I think that’s a bit unfair,” she says.
“It does make me feel hurt and upset … we’ve been here 21 years, and it’s only lately that these things are coming up.”
Since then, the immigration debate dominating the political agenda has only grown louder, with Labor, the Coalition and One Nation all unveiling their party’s plans to cut the country’s net overseas migration intake.