Migration keeps the Aussie economy growing, but it’s complicated
ANALYSIS: Without record-high immigration, Australia would be in recession. Issue shaping as another political battleground in run-up to next election.
WATCH: NBR senior journalist Lachlan Colquhoun speaks with Dita De Boni.
Australia is a country built on successive waves of immigration, and even today around 30% – or 8.2 million – of Australians were born overseas.
This is a figure which might resonate in New Zealand, where Stats NZ reports the comparable figure is 27%.
With immigration comes benefits and
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