China has overtaken the UK and New Zealand as Australia’s biggest source of immigrants, official figures reveal.
The latest government figures show a record 6,350 people arrived from China in the four months to October.
China’s new primacy was due largely to a fall in migration from the UK and New Zealand, as people there opt to hold on to jobs instead of moving to Australia.
Arrivals from the UK were down 28% to 5,800 and the number from New Zealand was down 47% to 4,740.
Diplomatic spats
British migration has also been affected by a cut in the number of skilled workers Australia allows to settle in the country.
Chinese migration, however, is dominated by family reunions and grew by 15% over the same period last year.
New Zealanders do not require visas to migrate to Australia and so the drop in migration from there is a direct response to economic conditions, demographer Graeme Hugo told the Sydney Morning Herald.
The upsurge in Chinese migration comes despite a series of spats this year between Beijing and Canberra.
Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto spurned a bid from Chinese state-owned firm Chinalco in favour of an offer from another Anglo-Australian company – BHP Billiton.
Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and three Chinese staff were arrested in China on suspicion of industrial espionage.
Deepening the diplomatic chill, Australia allowed high-profile Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer to visit in August.
Since then, both sides have worked to improve ties. A survey of Chinese attitudes to Australia released earlier this month indicated that a majority of respondents agreed Australia has attractive values and a good political system.
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A bunch of idiotic trashes attempting to think of a problem…
Draft and pass/enact Chinese Exclusion Acts just like the US did. Simple. All I see are a bunch of White losers sitting on their hands reading about the immigration problem online. Reading =/= decisive action. Face it – whites are losers!!! *snicker*
The only hope to save our White Countries from total take-over by Chinese,Muslims and all other third-world mud is Military intervention with indefinite Marshall Law.
Popular uprisings can also be successful or uprisings triggering a Military response. I want my people,my race and my civilization to survive.
Desperate times call for desperate solutions.
Something will have to be done and those in government who have brought us to our knees will have to be prosecuted and the punishment must be so severe that there will never be a traitor around.
There will be no political solution. It’s now up to the Military and the people.
Europe is probably finished, if things go well, Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Poland will get out of the European Union and arm themselves to deter aggression from an Islamizing European Union. If things go badly the whole of Europe and the British Isles could be lost to Islamization. The Chinese and the Jaspanese have a major conflict between their cultural norms and political correctness, a partial Asianization of Australia will form a useful alliance between the Anglo-Saxon peoples and other European Peoples in Australia with the Chinese and Japanese peoples against the spread of Islamization.
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