Staggering number of migrants that have arrived in Australia since Anthony Albanese rose to power

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has allowed a record 1.15million migrants to enter the country since he came into power.

Labor has already exceeded its migration target for the last financial year, according to an analysis of migration patterns by parliamentary term.

The net migration intake from July 2023 to May 2024 was 445,510 - a figure that is well ahead of the 395,000 Labor committed to in the Budget.

In just 27 months, Mr Albanese has brought in more migrants than the entire Hawke-Keating years - which lasted five times longer at 156 months.

The data also revealed almost one-third of Australians - 31 per cent - were born overseas - a nine per cent increase to 1983 figures.

Albanese's government also recorded a whopping 62 per cent more migrants than the Rudd-Gillard term - who held the previous record with 1.04million people.   

In the previous financial year - 2022 to 2023 - the countries representing the largest group of migrants were India with 92,940 (18 per cent), China with 64,320 (12 per cent) and the Philippines with 40,890 (8 per cent).

The top ten countries of migration to Australia included Nepal, Colombia, the UK, Vietnam, Pakistan, New Zealand and Thailand.

Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs Dr Kevin You accused the Albanese government of adding pressure to Australia's inflation and strained housing crisis.

'The Albanese government has no plan for economic growth, other than the shortsighted, lazy approach of bringing in record amounts of migrants, rather than doing the hard yards of real economic reform,' Dr You told the Daily Telegraph.

'The record surge to migration is taking place at the same time as housing and rental prices are at record highs and housing construction is at 1980s levels.

'Australians are suffering through cost-of-living crisis brought on by unplanned mass migration'.

Dr You slammed the prime minister for vowing to halve the annual migration intake in the next financial year, claiming the promise was 'not worth the paper it's written on'.

Four months ago, Mr Albanese promised Australia's net overseas intake would be slashed to just 250,000 in 2024-25.

'It's yet another broken promise from a government which is making it harder for mainstream Australians to get ahead,' Dr You said.

'The latest data reinforces that Australia's migration program is being run in the interests of big business and universities bureaucracy, not the Australian people.'

Dr You admitted that while migration has and will continue to play a critical role, the current migration intake was causing immense pressure on Australians.

'Record migration intake is placing immense pressure on housing and infrastructure, and has not solved our worker shortage crisis and is leaving Australians worse off,' he said.

Immigration and Citizenship shadow minister Dan Tehan said Labor had a 'Big Australia' policy by stealth, but no plan to deal with its impact.  

'Labor claim they don't want a big Australia but judge them on the facts not their words,' he said.

'There's no plan for where they will live, or how to deal with the impact on government services or the environment.

'This at a time Australians are either struggling to find a place to live or they're being hit with crippling rent increases.'

In April, Mr Albanese told Melbourne 3AW radio host Tom Elliott his government aimed to halve net overseas migration levels, after being pushed on a figure.

'Well, we're not going to just pluck a figure out of the sky, but what we are projecting is that the NOM, the net overseas migration, is projected to come down to 250,000 in the coming financial year in 2024-25,' he said.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in his May Budget reply speech promised to reduce the permanent intake to 140,000, down from 185,000.

But overall net overseas migration, which covers skilled migrants and international students, could still be above 200,000 - or double the levels of the late 1990s.

The consumer price index grew to 3.8 per cent in June, putting it even further above the Reserve Bank's 2 to 3 per cent target.

The latest headline inflation numbers, released in July, were worse than March quarter's 3.6 per and marked the first quarterly deterioration since 2022.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13740703/Migrants-Australia-Anthony-Albanese.html

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