{
  "id": 2254612,
  "title": "Migration panic is Australia’s Pennywise, laying dormant until the time is right",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/migration-panic-is-australias-pennywise-laying-dormant-until-the-time",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T23:24:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Crikey",
    "slug": "crikey",
    "url": "https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/21/migration-panic-pennywise-immigration-numbers-big-australia/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "You can set your watch to Australia's cycle of migration panic. But the real issue is that this country has built an economic model that needs migrants and a political model that needs them blamed. The post Migration panic is Australia’s Pennywise, laying dormant until the time is right appeared first on Crikey .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}