London: Peter Dutton says rising support for high-skilled migration in Australia is an example to the rest of the world that voters will accept immigrants if they believe the system is being run fairly.

Speaking to an audience of about 50 at the Policy Exchange in Westminster, Mr Dutton said immigration concerns had been at the heart of the Coalition's victory in 2013, Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the surge of support for the far-right AfD in Germany.

UKIP, and – for a short time – the Leave campaign, advocated an "Australian-style points-based" immigration system as a way of "taking back control" of Britain's borders. However the policy was not adopted by Prime Minister Theresa May.

Arguing that people would embrace immigration if it was done "fairly", Mr Dutton cited the 2016 Scanlon report, which found the lowest recorded number of Australians – 34 per cent – considered Australia's immigration intake was "too high".