The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released visitor arrivals and departures statistics for the month of December, which reveals that the number of permanent and long-term arrivals into Australia remains turbo-charged.
In the 2019 calendar year, there were 843,980 permanent and long-term arrivals into Australia, up 1% from December 2018, and only partly offset by 549,670 permanent and long-term departures:
Subtracting departures from arrivals, there were 294,310 net permanent and long-term arrivals into Australia in the 2019 calendar year, up 1% on December 2018 and way above the 43-year average of 157,283:
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