The Liberals under Sussan Ley are determined to walk a moderate path on immigration, despite calls for a more populist approach championed by high-profile backbencher Andrew Hastie.

This much was clear through a speech from the man spearheading the Liberals' immigration policy, who swiped at right-wing colleagues creating internal tensions over the migration intake.

Paul Scarr also took a pot shot at Hastie, the coalition's former home affairs spokesman, who resigned his post last week after accusing the opposition leader of cutting him out of developing immigration policy.

Mr Hastie called for a cut to mass migration and said, "we're starting to feel like strangers in our own home", a phrase that channelled the anti-migration "Rivers of Blood" speech given by white nationalist Enoch Po

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