Australia: Net migration half-million plus in last 12 months - highest ever recorded

Wed, 2025-03-05 09:20 by Anonymous

Australian Bureau of Statistics’ net overseas migration data released today shows the nation’s migration intake remains out-of-control.

In the 12 months to March 2024, net migration reached 509,754, the highest for the same period on record, exceeding the previous record of 491,815 in 2023.
Net overseas migration in the March quarter of 2024 was 133,802, the second highest March quarterly net intake after 2023, at 165,500.
The net overseas migrant intake for the first three quarters of the 2023-24 financial year was 388,241. The intake in three-quarters has almost exceeded the federal government’s commitment of a full-year target of 395,000 with another three months’ worth of arrivals still to go.

“You cannot blame people wanting to come to Australia for a better life in the greatest country on earth, however the federal government simply has no mandate to continue its big Australia by stealth mass-migration program,” said Dr You.

Australia's population in 2022 (26 million) is projected to reach between 34.3 and 45.9 million people by 2071.
The current ten year average annual growth rate (1.4%) is projected to decline to between 0.2% and 0.9%.
Australia is set to fall 300,000 homes short of its target to build 1.2 million homes by mid-2029.

Just three months into the National Housing Accord’s five-year timeline, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal that only 44,884 homes were completed in the September quarter — more than 15,000 below the 60,000-home quarterly target.

The alarming shortfall has raised concerns across the housing industry, with experts cautioning that at the current rate the deficit could snowball over the next five years, deepening the nation’s housing crisis.

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Fri, 2025-03-07 13:43

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Senseless situation

On the surface it does not make sense that the Federal Government presides over these huge immigration levels when they know it is deleterious to the lives of the people already here. Who is holding them in a stranglehold to make them do this? Likewise in the State of Victoria radical new measures have been adopted by the current State Government to squeeze more people in multitudinous high rise into established suburbs, threatening huge ongoing disruptions, loss of amenity and extreme concern to residents. We know that voting for either of the main parties will deliver basically the same outcome with a few cosmetic changes, perhaps since whoever is in charge seems to have to keep up this pace of influx or at least something like it. We know that there are lobbyists at work continually in Parliament House Canberra meeting with our politicians pushing a "growth agenda" in one way or another. But there must be more to the way it works. We know that for universities, overseas students are grist for their mills and make up nearly 40% of Australia's net overseas migration so it is huge lever. These students, like anyone else need accommodation of which we do not have enough. This is heartless and cruel to all seeking accommodation. Homelessness and rent stress destroy quality of life for individuals and families . Who is behind this crazy scheme?

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