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The Impact of Immigration in Australia: A Demographic Approach (2001) Foster, William, et al. Immigration and Australia: Myths and Realities (1998) Jupp, James. From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration (2007) excerpt and text search; Jupp, James. The English in Australia (2004) excerpt and text search; Jupp, James.
Australia's population has quadrupled since the end of World War I, [81] much of this increase from immigration. Australia has the world's eighth-largest immigrant population, with immigrants accounting for 30% of the population, a higher proportion than in any other nation with a population of over 10 million.
As of 30 June 2010, DIAC estimated that the number of visa overstayers in Australia was around 53,900, or 0.2 per cent of the Australian population. [3] In 2018, it was reported more than 60,000 foreigners are living illegally in Australia, [4] and by 2021 it was reported that increased to more than 100,000. [5]
Australia maintains a list of skilled occupations that are currently acceptable for immigration to Australia. [58] In 2009, following the global financial crisis, the Australian government reduced its immigration target by 14%, and the permanent migration program for skilled migrants was reduced to 115,000 people for that financial year. [59]
Migration 5 (M5, formerly the Five Country Conference on migration) [1] [2] is a conference of the immigration authorities of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
Between 2022 and 2024, some of the largest companies in the US — including Apple , Microsoft , Amazon , Tesla , Meta , and Google — sponsored a relatively high number of approved H-1B visas.
People born in the United States as a percentage of the population in Australia divided geographically by statistical local area, as of the 2011 census Number of permanent settlers arriving in Australia from the US since 1991 (monthly) At the 2006 Australian Census, 71,718 Australian residents declared that they were American-born.
Australia's e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant orders X and Meta to remove footage of the stabbing of Mar Mari Emmanuel. [136] The order is met with resistance from Elon Musk and prompts a protracted debate about free speech, with Musk refusing to delete the videos although it had blocked the content in Australia.