I had always heard it was hard to move to Australia and was surprised that you all let in migrants so easily.
When I was a travel agent years ago, I worked in a 24 hour travel agency that took care of customers when other travel agency’s closed and I would always seem to get the calls where an American was stranded because not only did we need a passport but we always needed a visa to enter Australia and some travel agents obviously didn’t know that...including me until the first call.
One has to wonder why world leaders would really be all in on importing these people..seems to have cost them in Britain now. Wonder if that will scare a few of them elsewhere?
A lot of it is claimed to counteract the ageing population. The rest of us know that businesses are using that as a convenient excuse to keep supply and demand in their favour. If it wasn't for foreigners coming all the time we would be in a recession. Everyone knows that. Politicians won't say the obvious truth of course.
It is way too easy to move here, even with a worker's visa. A lot of foreign students come and manage to stay thanks to that.
They have tightened some loopholes but it isn't enough. Remember we only have a population of 25 million + vast majority of land is uninhabitable for large populations thanks to very harsh environment. Except for Canberra all capital cities are on the coast.
Permanent migrants to Australia, by region and country (2016-17)
Region
Southern and Central Asia
58,232
North-East Asia
37,235
South-East Asia
31,488
North Africa and the Middle East
28,525
North-West Europe
25,174
Oceania and Antarctica
16,445
Sub-Saharan Africa
11,369
Americas
9,687
Southern and Eastern Europe
7,306
Supplementary and Not Stated
492
Migrants come to Australia from more than 180 countries, with India at the top of the list.
www.abc.net.au
That is permanent alone. That doesn't include people living here temporarily and people who don't worry about becoming permanent citizens! e.g. foreign students, workers with foreign visas, backpackers doing seasonal farm work etc etc.
The Universities are only in capital cities and very large regional towns e.g. Townsville (North Queensland).
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- Australia’s population grew by 395,600 to 24.7 million in the 12 months to September.
- Net overseas migration rose by 250,100 people, outpacing a 145,500 contribution by natural increase.
- Population growth is strongest in the eastern states, especially in Victoria.
Australia’s population grew by 395,600 to 24.7 million in the 12 months to September. Net overseas migration rose by 250,100 people, outpacing a 145,500 contribution by natural increase. Population growth is strongest in the eastern states, especially in Victoria. Australian population growth...
www.businessinsider.com.au
That is therefore population increase of 1.44 per cent in only 1 year. Asians definitely favour capital cities, a lot of them are foreign students. Foreigners really have no idea of how much impact on rent, traffic, house prices this is having overall on us.
Muslims like to think it is all about them, but it really isn't. Added all together the changes in Australia "thanks" to extreme population growth have been way too fast for too long. We need a pause button hit on population growth. I know businesses and jobs would be adversely affected in the short term but it would be best for long term.