Former Labor adviser Bruce Hawker says immigration is a very “complex” problem and complexity is the “enemy of votes”. ”They need to have a really good close eye on where additional labour is going to come from for really important work like housing construction and the like, and how we grow the economy other than through migration,” Mr Hawker told News24. “It is a much more complex argument that Labor has to offer the Australian public than the much more simplistic one that One Nation has, for example. “It’s a very complex problem, and unfortunately complexity is the enemy of votes in situations like this.”