Immigration

After deliberately ramping immigration into Australia to a record high, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to halve net overseas migration from its recent peak.

On Saturday, I will be the headline speaker at a public forum in Adelaide:  “From housing crisis to eco-crisis: Why Australia’s population growth is unsustainable?” My presentation is entitled: “Australia’s immigration and the everything shortage”.

According to the Department of Home Affairs’ latest temporary visa data, there were a record 713,144 international students in Australia as of the end of February 2024: This is an increase of around 100,000 from the pre-pandemic peak.

The freshly re-elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane Adrian Schrinner has taken aim at the record net permanent and long-term arrivals figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Tuesday. This data showed that Australia recorded the strongest monthly (105,500), quarterly (172,400), and annual (498,300) net permanent and long-term arrivals on record.

The National Bank of Canada has derided the government’s mythical plan to build 3.87 million new homes by 2031.

Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro published the below chart showing that labour shortages are rapidly easing across Australia: Low-skilled positions, in particular, have become much easier to find, with the share of employers reporting recruitment difficulties falling to pre-pandemic levels.

Australia’s population increased by a record 660,000 people in the year to September, which is roughly 1.5 times the size of Canberra. On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released net permanent and long-term arrivals figures for February, revealing record arrivals on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.

Statistics New Zealand has released data showing that productivity has collapsed amid the record surge in net overseas migration.

Last year, the Albanese government vowed to streamline the list of occupations eligible for employer-sponsored visas. The first draft of the new job list, devised by the government agency Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA), reportedly omits chefs, cooks, bakers, and managers, which has angered the hospitality industry.

South Asian students are a key driver of Australia’s record increase in net overseas migration.

CBA economist, Harry Ottley, has published a terrific statistical report on Australia’s rental market, which unambiguously shows that the unprecedented surge in net overseas migration after the international border was reopened in late 2021 is behind the collapse in the rental vacancy rate and the hyperinflation in rents.

The latest temporary visa data from the Department of Home Affairs shows that there were a record 713,144 international students in Australia at the end of February 2024: According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), higher education providers earned $14.5 billion in tuition fees from international students in 2022-23.

The latest population data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that Melbourne’s population soared by 1.7 million people (49%) between 2001 and 2023, driven by net overseas migration.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week spruiked that Labor has created about 790,000 new jobs since it won the May 2022 election.

If you think Australia’s 2.5% population growth is insane, spare a thought for Canada and New Zealand, which currently have us beat: After deliberately engineering massive post-pandemic rebounds, politicians in both countries recognise that it was a mistake and are now attempting to close the gate after the immigration horse has already bolted.

Following the biggest immigration surge in Australia’s history, which saw a record 549,000 net overseas migrants land in the year to September 2023, The Australian Population Research Institute (Tapri) has released a comprehensive survey showing that Australians comprehensively reject high immigration and a Big Australia.

As we all know, Australia’s population increased by 660,000 in the year to September 2023, driven by net overseas migration of 549,000. However, throughout the same period, we constructed only 155,600 dwellings (net of demolitions), which means we created just one home for every 4.24 new residents.

New data from the Department of Home Affairs shows that at the end of February, the number of international students in Australia hit a record high of 713,144, whereas the number of temporary migrants in Australia hit a record high of 2.8 million (nearly 2.4 million excluding visitors).

Australia posted record population growth of 660,000 people in the year to September 2023, driven by record high net overseas migration of 549,000.

Last month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the official population data for the September quarter of 2023, revealing that Australia’s population increased by an astounding 660,000 people over the year, driven by a record net overseas migration (NOM) of 549,000.