Australian population policy

Australia’s  population of 26.5m grew at the rate of 2.2% (year ending March 2023.) At 2.2% growth rate our current population would increase to 30m within 10 years and double in 31.85 yrs and would reach 150m by 2103, within the life-expectancy of a child born today. Less than 25% of that 2.2 rate of population growth was due to natural increase. Without the 454,361 migration, we would have grown at about 0.55%.

Are you interested in Australia's 2015-16 permanent migration programme?
It has just come to the attention of the Sustainable Population Party that the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) is seeking your feedback - by 5 December 2014 (tomorrow).

The 2015-16 Migration Programme

Step 1:

CLICK HERE

Step 2: Under 'The 2015-16 Migration Programme', click on 'Setting the Migration Programme for 2015-16' to download the paper.

Step 3: Scroll to page 12 of the paper where you will find the survey monkey link.

Step 4: Complete the 5 minute survey.

Our suggestion to DIBP was 'zero net migration'. This means that permanent immigration would be equivalent to permanent emigration (estimated to be around 70,000 per annum, and easily enough to cater for our humanitarian/refugee intake of around 14,000).

You may wish to make the same zero net migration suggestion.