Why Labor loves high immigration
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A 2022 survey by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace showed that Indian migrants overwhelmingly vote for Labor over the Coalition.

In the 2022 federal election, Indian migrants voted 58:34 in favour of Labor over the Coalition.

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Chinese-Australians also seem to prefer Labor. The Tally Room found that at the 2022 federal election, almost all areas with greater than 10% Chinese ancestry swung to Labor.
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.