New polling suggests a strong majority of Australians consider migrants' ability to get a job is much more important than their religion or country of origin.
An Essential Research poll, commissioned exclusively for SBS News, found three-quarters of respondents named "having skills and qualifications that will allow them to find a job" as a top three priority in determining whether someone should be allowed to move to Australia.
Of those, nearly a third ranked it as the most important deciding factor out of eight criteria.
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Q: Which of the following criteria do you think should be the most important for deciding whether a migrant should be allowed to move to Australia? Source: Essential Research
