On 13-14 June 2018 Juliet Pietsch from the School of Politics and International Relations, and Ann Evans and James Raymer from the School of Demography convened a successful symposium on immigration at the Regatta Point on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin. The symposium had more than 60 participants and included speakers from across the Australian Federal Government, the Federation of Ethnic Communities Affairs (FECCA), International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Scanlon Foundation and Academia. There was lots of lively and informative discussion and debate on contemporary immigration policy and research.