Last week The Australian editorialised on Australia’s immigration policies, noting that the Prime Minister’s “reception this week at an invitation-only UN summit on refugees must have come as a surprise” to our refugee activists, whose bleatings figure so largely on the Green’s ABC and elsewhere. Yes, indeed.

For myself, however, the surprise came not in that reception of Malcolm Turnbull’s remarks, but at the full-throated manner in which he had voiced them. After