Aspirational migrants and their families will be the fastest growing demographic chunk of suburban Australia for at least the next two decades.
Already a subscriber?Australia’s identity is undergoing fundamental demographic changes. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that net overseas migration hit a record 659,800 in the year ending September 2023, out of a total population of 26.8 million. These arrivals accounted for 83 per cent of Australia’s population growth for the year.
No wonder the Canberra bureaucracy and the Tax Office loves migrants. They’re the ones paying net tax for public service salaries. As this demographic is expected to look after their own family here in Australia and parents living in their home country, as well as paying income taxes to support Australian-born Baby Boomers wanting a second knee replacement in a public hospital, I would not want to be leading a Labor prime minister standing between them and a tax cut. Not that it seems to worry Anthony Albanese.
As they start families, they morph into a more transactional Indo-Pacific version of our traditional swinging voters group, whose ancestry last century was more English and European.
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