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BRITISH MIGRANTS TOP LIST By Bill DeaconMIGRANTS from the UK and Ireland again made up the largest single source of settlers to Australia, with 13 per cent of total migrants arriving in the 2002/2003 financial year. This gave Australia just over 12,500 new migrants during this period, from a net overseas migration total of 117,600 in that period, an increase of 1 per cent over the previous 12 months. Migrants from the UK and Ireland are still Australia's largest single ethnic group, making up a massive 24 per cent of the country's total migrant population, or 6 per cent of the total population of just over 20 million people. And migrants are slowly changing the face of Australia, with 24 per cent of the total population born overseas at end-June 2004. Western Australia remains popular with UK and Irish migrants and has 29 per cent of its population born in those countries. This contrasts with just 11 per cent of Tasmania's population born there, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But New South Wales had the highest net intake of overseas-born migrants with 39,300 people, in 2003-2004, followed by Victoria with 34,600. The number of overseas-born migrants entering Australia from 1996 to 2004 increased by an average of 1.4 per cent a year. This was a larger increase than the Australian-born population, of 1.1 per cent and the total population increase, of 1.2 per cent. .In 2003-2004 Australia's population increased by a huge 117,600 people due to net overseas migration. Skilled migrants accounted for 46 per cent of all permanent arrivals in Australia during this period. In comparison, Family Stream migrants accounted for 26 per cent, highlighting the Federal Government's policy of attracting more skilled migrants to help with Australia's chronic skills shortages. |
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