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Chapter 1: Immigration in Australia: Key facts in immigration; Immigration - the background; Overseas-born population; The metropolitan melting pot; Migration lift to young and skilled. -- Chapter 2: Immigration and the Population Debate: Population projections; People number-crunching; More younger workers are fundamental to prosperity; A potentially fatal burden on a fragile continent; Skills essential for the good ship Migrant Policy; More people mean a stronger, wealthier nation; Damaged environment demands we cut our population; Partisans ’hijack’ population debate; Fertility plea ’futile’; Boom in numbers must be planned for, say greens; Roll up to a migration juggling act; Growth must come from within; Much to be gained from more Australians; Quality of our way of life is at stake with mass immigration; Small and well formed ... let’s leave it that way. -- Chapter 3: The Asylum Seekers Debate: Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program; Seeking asylum within Australia; Debunking the myths about asylum seekers; Firm but fair approach to asylum seekers; A compassionate solution to boat people is not weakness; The case for detention; Leadership minus compassion is tearing us apart; No shame in putting national interest first; Border protection and compassion can coexist; There is another way to deal with boatpeople; Criminals ’better off than asylum seekers’; UN fails to offer decent alternative