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Racist population fears killed by facts

By Malcolm King - posted Friday, 25 January 2013


Below is the breakdown of NOM by major groupings.

NOM by major groupings and visa (Australia 2009-10)

ABS 3412.0 - Migration, Australia, 2010-11

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NOM arrival

%

NOM departure

%

NOM

%

Temp visas

211,258

48.3

104,951

43.4

106,507

54.3

VET

25,710

5.9

9,880

4.1

15,830

8.1

Higher ed

56,494

12.9

24,205

10.0

32,289

16.5

Student other

25,039

5.7

8,268

3.4

16,771

8.6

Business long stay (457 visa)

26,225

6.0

14,599

6.0

11,626

5.9

Visitor

40,319

9.2

16,241

6.7

24,078

12.3

Working holiday

33,031

7.5

15,034

6.2

17,997

9.2

Other temp visas

4640

1.1

16,724

6.9

-12,084

-6.2

Perm visas

84,014

19.2

6,388

2.6

77,626

39.6

Family

34,592

7.9

2,531

1.0

32,061

16.4

Skill

39,564

9.0

3,779

1.6

35,785

18.3

Special & humanitarian

9,858

2.3

78

-

9,780

5.0

NZ citizens

39,586

9.0

18,432

7.6

21,154

10.8

Australians citizens

79,042

18.0

83,339

34.5

-4297

-2.2

Other

23,828

5.4

28,762

11.9

-7934

-2.5

Total

437,928

100.0

241,872

100.0

196,056

100.0

Temporary visa holders – 106,507 people

These people are visitors. They have no Australian citizenship rights and they must return to their countries before their visas expire. They include international students, businessmen and women on 457 visas and long-term holidaymakers (see table above).

In 2009-10 there were 106,507 (in red) of them. They washed in like a tide and they washed out again. They comprised 54.3 per cent of all people who set foot in Australia (not including boat people, who from 2008-2010, numbered 4500) in that year.

Back in 2007–08, about 40 per cent of those who held visas in the temporary skilled migration category - mainly overseas students and some subclass 457 visa holders - were granted permanent residency. Those days are gone.

Now about 18 per cent are granted permanent migration status and in most cases, it is where they have worked long term for an employer. Be mindful, these people are not citizens or permanent residents. Yet the anti-pops use their number, with Hansonite vitriol, to accuse them of eating us out of house and home, when in fact, their home is overseas. They are visitors.

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Permanent visa holders (Family, Skills and Humanitarian) - 77,626 people (in red)

What riles the anti-pops are the Permanent visa holders. These people are eating our food, driving cars on our roads, buying our apartments, using energy and dare I say it, having children. The anti-pops loath them because they are families (some are part of the reunion program), people with special skills such as engineers (see skills list) and those who have applied for asylum.

But there is a major problem here for the anti-pops. In the net of NOM arrivals, there were 79,042 Aussies and 39,564 Kiwis counted in the arrivals total (in blue in the table). Why? Australian’s don’t need a visa to return to their country and New Zealander’s enjoy free movement between our two nations under the Trans Tasman Travel Arrangement.

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Malcolm King is a journalist and professional writer. He was an associate director at DEEWR Labour Market Strategy in Canberra and the senior communications strategist at Carnegie Mellon University in Adelaide. He runs a writing business called Republic.

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