Jane McAdam from the Kaldor Centre said migration should be seen as a key part of solving — not causing — national challenges.
"We really need to take a good, hard look at the evidence when it comes to looking at what is driving those pressures and looking at how the government at all levels needs to be addressing things like the housing crisis without wrongly demonising migrants in the process," she said.
"Australia is a country full of migrants and it's migration that has made us. Multiculturalism has made us such a flourishing, diverse, and successful society and country that we are."