Hey Foxy,
That's interesting.
"In 2016-2017 Australia demonstrated a net overseas migration
gain of 262,500 persons - a rise of 27.3% compared to
2015-2016."
Because if we look at births for the same period from ABS

"A total of 309,142 births were registered in Australia in 2017, resulting in a total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.74 babies per woman, the lowest since 2001."

That's a total of 571,642.
Assuming no change on this number equals 5.7 million population increase in 10 years or 3.1 million over 10 years without immigration.

Aiden give me a good reason why we, the safe haven country should change anything to accommodate refugees
Then tell me why they would not even consider doing that for us

Hi AC,

Thanks for the birth rate increases.

More than half of those would be from parents
of ethnic backgrounds - therefore adding
the immigrants and the babies - the total would
outnumber the locals. Migrants do tend to have more children. (smile).

ttbn,
I have never been a fundamentalist, and I oppose fundamentalism in all its forms.
I'm not a political tribalist, and there are some issues on which those on the right are more likely to side with me than those on the left.
But the left at least try to base their policies around social justice (aka a fair go for all) while it's clear from this board that many on the right hate social justice, and look for reasons (usually based on fear) to avoid giving people a fair go.

Aidan,

You would say that but, were it possible for you to have a flash of self-revelation, I believe that you would be mortified by some of the things you say. Never mind. Nobody's perfect.

Ita Buttrose has joined the race obsession bandwagon, unoriginally suggesting that the media should "better reflect the culture of Australia". How much further does she think HER ABC needs to go, when most rational viewers think that that billion dollar monolith has gone overboard and is now MISrepresenting Australian culture by bunging in coloured people, Middle Easterners, Asians and sundries into roles that they never appear in in real-life. They also continue to import stuff from the like minded BBC: period pieces depicting black people in England and Europe when no such people were present in the particular era.

Last night, the ABC started another propaganda 'infotainment' clearly intent on promoting the aboriginal industry standing up to the white baddies. While the lead actor has always been excellent in other shows, and there are other excellent aboriginal actors in this one too, the blatant Left-view of aboriginality is too much for my stomach.

Anyway, it looks like we have another unoriginal dud thinker heading the ABC - again!