Racist population fears killed by facts

Below is the breakdown of NOM by major groupings.

NOM by major groupings and visa (Australia 2009-10)

ABS 3412.0 - Migration, Australia, 2010-11

Temporary visa holders – 106,507 people

These people are visitors. They have no Australian citizenship rights and they must return to their countries before their visas expire. They include international students, businessmen and women on 457 visas and long-term holidaymakers (see table above).

In 2009-10 there were 106,507 (in red) of them. They washed in like a tide and they washed out again. They comprised 54.3 per cent of all people who set foot in Australia (not including boat people, who from 2008-2010, numbered 4500) in that year.

Back in 2007–08, about 40 per cent of those who held visas in the temporary skilled migration category - mainly overseas students and some subclass 457 visa holders - were granted permanent residency. Those days are gone.

Now about 18 per cent are granted permanent migration status and in most cases, it is where they have worked long term for an employer. Be mindful, these people are not citizens or permanent residents. Yet the anti-pops use their number, with Hansonite vitriol, to accuse them of eating us out of house and home, when in fact, their home is overseas. They are visitors.

Permanent visa holders (Family, Skills and Humanitarian) - 77,626 people (in red)

What riles the anti-pops are the Permanent visa holders. These people are eating our food, driving cars on our roads, buying our apartments, using energy and dare I say it, having children. The anti-pops loath them because they are families (some are part of the reunion program), people with special skills such as engineers (see skills list) and those who have applied for asylum.

But there is a major problem here for the anti-pops. In the net of NOM arrivals, there were 79,042 Aussies and 39,564 Kiwis counted in the arrivals total (in blue in the table). Why? Australian’s don’t need a visa to return to their country and New Zealander’s enjoy free movement between our two nations under the Trans Tasman Travel Arrangement.