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Simon Kuestenmacher

The Stats Guy: Why Australia needs more migrants and future citizens

We are making it unnecessarily expensive and bureaucratic for migrants to become Australians. Photo: AAP/TND

Australia is a migration nation. You all know this. Over 29 per cent of our 26 million residents were born abroad.

That’s big in international comparison. Ever since the end of World War II, Australia has increasingly welcomed more migrants to the country.

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