Wednesday’s ABS national accounts showed that Australia’s population grew at an extraordinary 2.6% annual pace in the six months to June, the highest rate on record:
Source: Alex Joiner (IFM Investors)
In actual number terms, this suggests that Australia’s population swelled by 626,500 in the year to June – easily the largest increase in history:
Source: Cameron Kusher (PropTrack)
These extreme population growth numbers are confirmed by the ABS’ population clock, which shows that Australia’s population is currently 26.7 million:
This is an increase of 459,085 on 31 December 2022:
As independent economist Tarric Brooker notes, this suggests that Australia’s population will grow by around 675,000 people in calendar year 2023:
If so, this would blow past the federal budget’s projections of a population increase of 490,000 to 26.75 million:
Source: 2023 federal Budget
Australia will that population projection three months early by end-September 2023.
Make no mistake. This population deluge has been deliberately engineered by the Albanese Government, which has taken explicit policy actions to ramp up immigration.
These policies include:
- Extending post-study graduate visas by two years, in turn making student visas more attractive.
- Committing $42 million and 600 staff to clear the so-called “one million visa backlog” and rubber stamping as many visa applications as possible.
- Raising the permanent non-humanitarian migrant intake by 30,000 to 190,000, thereby increasing the chances of temporary migrants gaining permanent residency.
- Approving 66,000 “pandemic event visas” and waiting too long to close the rort down.
- Prioritising offshore visa applicants over onshore.
- Removing a requirement that international students acknowledge that they are not applying for a student visa to migrate to Australia.
- Signing migration agreements allowing Indian students and workers to live in Australia long-term.
In turn, the Albanese Government has delivered Australians an unprecedented rental crisis, crush-loaded infrastructure, rising unemployment, and a per capita recession.
Nobody voted for such extreme immigration, and the majority of voters do not support it.
Anthony Albanese also lied to Australians when he suggested in December 2021 that a Labor government would run a more moderate immigration program:
Labor has committed a treasonous betrayal of working Australians.
