Immigration, especially from Asia, is down and tourism and business trips (both into and out of Australia) are up, according to figures for the September quarter issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday.
The immigration decrease continues a downward trend since 1988, accelerating in the last six months. The number of permanent departures has increased from 1986 to 1990 and then started to fall. Permanent departures in September 92, at 6580, were 9 per cent down on September 91.
Permanent settler arrivals fell 26 per cent to 23,310 from the September 91 quarter to the September 92 quarter. The main decreases were from people born in Malaysia (58 per cent), Vietnam (50 per cent), Taiwan (49 per cent), Hong Kong (41 per cent), India (35 per cent), Philippines (34 per cent) and Britain (33 per cent). New Zealand settler arrivals were up 9 per cent. The former Soviet Union and Iraq increased, too.
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