This article claims to cite the ABS, but the ABS has a very different story: abs.gov.au/…/annual-net-overseas-migration-falls-…

Overseas migration added 306,000 people to Australia’s population in the 2024-25 financial year, according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Jenny Dobak, ABS head of migration statistics, said: ‘Net overseas migration dropped by 124,000 people in 2024-25, falling for the second year in a row since the financial year high of 538,000 people in 2022-23.

‘The change in net overseas migration was driven by both a 14 per cent decrease in migrant arrivals, particularly temporary visa holders, and a 13 per cent increase in migrant departures.

‘While net overseas migration is not currently at the level seen prior to the pandemic, this year’s overseas migration figures are the closest to pre-COVID-19 figures since annual net overseas migration peaked in September quarter 2023.

‘Migrant arrivals in 2024-25 were only 3 per cent higher than in 2018-19, but migrant departures remained 15 per cent lower than they were in 2018-19.’

The irony is: Most people’s jimmies would not have been rustled even if this article hadn’t been full of shit. Go back a few generations and almost all of us are migrants.