Australia's Snowy Mountains hydro-electric Scheme is a shining beacon of what can be achieved when nations welcome displaced migrants rather than retreating into isolationism.

Workers tunnelling through mountains and redirecting rivers, powering and irrigating the nation. We think of the Snowy scheme as a successful nationbuilding project – but it wasn’t always that way ...

Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says the Snowy Mountains Scheme was given "rigorous analysis and public debate" over several years before construction began, and could not be ...