Australia since the end of the White Australia Policy has been moving pretty much to open borders immigration. This can’t be done overnight, just as the ethno-racial change of the Anglo-Saxon population – 97 percent at Federation – had to be done by the Fabian strategy of gradualism. Nevertheless, that is the direction.
At the turn of the new year, the Immigration Minister said that terrorists were exploiting flaws in the temporary visa system. (The Weekend Australian, December 31 2016-January 1, 2017, p. 1) Terrorists convicted and serving sentences in Australian gaols had used fake passports and spousal, tourist and humanitarian visas.
To counter this, the government intends to improve visa risk assessments and strengthen the citizenship character test.
All these measures are a joke which will do nothing. The problem is immigration itself and the profound ethno-cultural changes which it produces. With free immigration, terrorists and extremists will always enter the country.