Australia is being urged to follow the lead of New Zealand in dramatically slashing the country’s migrant intake and tightening rules surrounding sought-after visas. Four months after coming to power, the coalition government across the ditch has taken steps to address “unsustainable” levels of immigration, after a near-record high ofContinue Reading
Australia’s record immigration intake is largely being fuelled by an unprecedented influx of international students, which universities claim are Australia’s fourth-biggest “export” bringing in $40 billion a year. But some experts have long questioned that figure, produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), arguing it does not take intoContinue Reading
Pauline Hanson has called back to her now-infamous claims Australia is being “swamped” by Asian immigrants as she renewed calls to halt migration. On the day new figures revealed Australia’s migration intake had surged to a record high of 548,800 arrivals in the year to September, threatening the government’s ownContinue Reading
NSW Premier Chris Minns has said the state is unable to put a “stop sign” to the Commonwealth’s plan to increase immigration, despite ongoing pressures to NSW’s budget. While NSW continues to be on the warpath after being short-changed in the GST carve-up, Mr Minns says he is unable toContinue Reading
Australia is on track to “obliterate” last year’s record immigration levels as record population growth sends living standards into “terminal decline”, an economist has warned. Leith van Onselen, co-founder of MacroBusiness and chief economist at MB Fund and MB Super, said the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of StatisticsContinue Reading
Dick Smith has blasted Australia’s latest record immigration figures for January as a “disaster for families”, as the federal government faces growing calls to reduce the number of new arrivals to ease pressure on the housing market. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, the legendary Aussie businessman slammed the latest figuresContinue Reading
Australia’s annual migration intake has rocketed to its highest level ever, with a “big catch-up” of foreign students and backpackers arriving in droves after Covid-era border closures were scrapped. Fresh data, released by the Bureau of Statistics on Thursday, revealed net overseas migration – the difference between the number ofContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has pushed back against questions about the nation’s near-term migration intake by accusing a journalist interviewing him of using rhetoric plucked from what he described as a Coalition scare campaign. The Prime Minister said Australia’s higher than usual migration forecasts in the near future were effectively a “returnContinue Reading
Australia is facing the “challenge” of an ageing population, as the proportion of Australians over the age of 65 grows so does the burden on younger workers. The proportion of people aged over 65 has doubled in the past 70 years, a trend that‘s set to accelerate according to theContinue Reading