by MORGAN BEGG – NEW data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirms that record immigration intake levels were again broken this year.
The Albanese Government has either lost control of Australia’s immigration program or it is cravenly using it for its own economic or political purposes – and not for the benefit of the nation.
- The Albanese Government has overseen nine quarters of negative per capita growth out of eleven quarters.
- Each Australian is being left with an ever-shrinking life style.
Overseas arrivals and departures data for April 2025 shows net permanent and long-term arrivals were 24,660 – the highest April intake on record, beating the previous record of 22,770 in 2009 by eight per cent.
Also, net permanent and long-term arrivals in the year-to-April 2025 were 212,660 – the second highest on record, narrowly surpassed by the previous year’s number at 216,810.
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Net permanent and long-term arrivals in the 12 months to April 2025 were 440,330, the second highest on record, after the year to April 2024 oversaw 487,820 net arrivals.
“After a succession of failed immigration estimates, the federal government no longer has any credibility in projecting future immigration levels,” according to an Institute of Public Affairs release.
“The forecasts used in federal budgets are continuously undermined by the government’s weakness in controlling excessive migration intakes.”
Concerningly, federal budget net overseas migration projections for FY25 (335,000 arrivals) have already been exceeded by 39,076 net permanent and long-term arrivals with two months of data yet to come in.
“Australia is a tolerant and welcoming society for new migrants. However, our migration intake must be planned, it must enjoy the support of the community – and it must not overstretch critical social infrastructure like housing, schools, roads, and hospitals,” the release said.
“The federal government is setting Australia up for an economic and humanitarian disaster.
“Failing to rein in unsustainable migration intakes actively undermines Australians who are struggling with rapidly rising house prices and rental costs.”
ABS National Accounts data for the March quarter of 2025 showed that out of control migration is driving per capita GDP backwards, declining 0.23 per cent in the period.
“Since coming to office, the Albanese Government has overseen nine quarters of negative per capita growth out of the eleven quarters in which it has been in power.
“As the federal government has relied on the lazy approach of mass migration to keep the aggregate economy afloat, the overall economic pie may have continued to grow at a headline level, but each Australian is being left with an ever-shrinking slice.”
