Liberal senator breaks ranks to take aim at Angus Taylor’s ‘negative’ rhetoric on immigration

A Liberal senator has broken ranks to criticise Angus Taylor’s plan to bar non-citizens from accessing welfare, warning it will create “two types of members of the community” and is “not the Australian way”. The outspoken backbencher Andrew McLachlan said migrants should not be blamed for economic problems including the housing crisis, and warned his party’s immigration rhetoric was alienating diaspora communities. Taylor made immigration a centrepiece of his budget reply speech last week. …