China top source of immigration
Submitted 9/12/2009
Australian Captial City Daily
China has become Australia's biggest source of migrants, for the first time eclipsing New Zealand and Britain.
The latest migration figures show a record 6350 new settlers arrived from mainland China in the four months to October, compared with the 5800 from Britain and the 4740 from New Zealand.
The Chinese ascendanry owes more to a collapse in migration from the traditional sources than it does to the 15 per cent annual growth in migration from China. The number of migrants from the UK is down 28 per cent over the year and the number from New Zealand down 47 per cent.


