Recent tensions in the UK, including rising knife crime and social fragmentation, reflect a broader trend of fraying social cohesion. In Australia, discussing these dynamics is quickly labelled ‘far-right’, but Australia’s immigration policies risk steering us toward similar challenges. Recent polling reveals that half of Australians believe current migration levels are too high. Australian immigration is majority unskilled, but even the pretence of ‘skilled migration’ is a farce given real estate agent, along with migration agent, are listed as skilled professions. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently warned that without strong migration rules, the UK risks becoming ‘an island of strangers’.