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Security without submarines: the military strategy Australia should pursue instead of AUKUS (theconversation.com)
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[-] nevetsg@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

We’ve imported ~20% of our population in the last 5 years

I had to check this claim for myself and as far as I can see your numbers are way off. Looking at the numbers supplied by the ABS I can see 2.485M arrivals over 5 years to 2024, or neally 10% of the 26M population. Not the 20% in your claim but feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

65% of these arrivals are Temporary visa holders, so they go home again...
13% were returning Australian Citizens.
6.3% were from NZ.
14% were Perminant Visa holders. 350K over 5 years is 1.34% of the Australian population.

this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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