Key events 34m ago Welcome Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Cait Kelly Advocates for migrants last night accused Angus Taylor of using his budget reply speech to “chase votes with dog whistles, fear and division”. Taylor claimed that migrants were coming to Australia and claiming benefits before they were becoming citizens, a situation which he said Australians did not accept. But the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre said that newly arrived migrants already face strict waiting periods of up to four years before they can access most Centrelink payments, including JobSeeker, Youth Allowance and the Parenting Payment. By the time most permanent migrants become eligible for those payments, they are already eligible to apply for Australian citizenship, it said. Jana Favero, deputy CEO of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, said: double quotation mark The Coalition’s dangerous decision to return to its harmful, failed refugee policies of the past shows what a mess they are in.…