It came up again when we were on the panel, when an audience member asked how it affects Australian politics and news media. There are a lot of answers to that question — but the one I emphasized involved the dearth of independent data. The Department of Home Affairs did not publicly release last year’s annual immigration report so we can all see how the system works. Our requests for the raw data and full report have been repeatedly denied. Academics tell me the data collection either isn’t there, hampering in-depth analysis, or it’s in bits and pieces.

Source: New York Times February 08, 2019 02:57 UTC