Summary
A long-term population plan is required for Australia, underpinned by population projections which incorporate a much lower net overseas migration intake of non-European migrants.
A much smaller and higher skilled migration program is also required. This could entail a 95% allocation of annual visas for high skilled migrants from Europe, the UK and Anglosphere nations.
This is needed to reverse the trend of replacement-level immigration.
A comprehensive remigration plan is a necessity for Australia. This will only proceed if there is significant change in political representation in the Australian federal and state parliaments.
A migration restriction program is necessary to screen prospective migrants, to facilitate assimilation into traditional Australian communities, and to maintain social cohesion.
Anglo-Australians have been placed in the diabolical situation of being demographically replaced due to bipartisan immigration policy being imposed on them in Australia over many decades.
Australia's bipartisan immigration agenda
The population replacement of European Australians stems from bipartisan political support for mass immigration by both the Liberal-National Coalition and the Labor Party. Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the ethnic replacement of Anglo-Australians.
Australian academic Dr. Frank Salter, reveals that an ethnic bias was prevalent in immigration policy dating back several decades:
“The ethnic bias against Anglo-Australia was obvious to historian Geoffrey Blainey by the 1980s. Blainey noted that Australia’s immigration policy, gives the tiny Asian portion of the Australian population four of every ten migrant places.”1 The main political parties were able to do this by keeping the major issue of immigration off the political agenda.
However, since the 1980’s, Asian and non-European immigration in general has risen sharply.
In 1993 [Bob] Hawke, “indicated that he and his predecessors on both sides of politics had adopted a bipartisan policy – an ‘implicit pact’ – to impose non-European immigration on Australians despite the public not endorsing the policy.”2
This has continued to this date.
A rising number of Australians feel frustrated with the major parties keeping immigration policy hidden from public scrutiny. In 2019, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson introduced a private members Bill, to hold a plebiscite on Australia’s future immigration levels.
Liberal and Labor politicians voted against the Bill. This effectively denied Anglo and European Australians the opportunity to oppose mass replacement-level immigration.
Australians were denied the chance to have a say on the future demographic composition of their own nation.
Chart 2 below reveals mass replacement-level immigration starting to gather pace from the early 2000s onwards.
The statistics don’t lie. They indicate that the demographic replacement of Anglo-Australians by mass immigration was not a result of unintended consequences or political naivety.
Since the 1970’s Australia’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has been below 2.1 babies per woman (See Chart 1 below).
This is the level of births required for a woman to replace herself and her husband in the absence of overseas migration. A TFR of 2.1 will help sustain a stationary population and prevent population decline.
For several decades, consecutive Australian governments have relied predominantly on mass non-European immigration as a means to replace Australia’s population and maintain high population growth rates.
These policies were also implemented to maintain high rates of economic growth.
However, new research from the Institute of Public Affairs suggest that “the federal government has solely relied on the lazy approach of record migration intakes to keep the overall economy from slipping into recession.”
Given the choice between lower economic growth and large-scale immigration, polls have consistently shown the majority of Australians voting for a big reduction in net overseas migration (NOM).
The enhanced levels of immigration-fuelled population growth implemented by the main parties; indicate they had zero commitment to promoting a stable population level.
For example, the Coalition or Labor could have capped NOM at around 100,000 migrants per-year.
Australian demographers have provided population projections stretching out a century to 2120, which reveal that Australia requires a NOM constant at around 100,000 per-year and a TFR at 1.65, to maintain a stable population level.
In this scenario demographers illustrate Australia's population rising slowly and levelling off below 34 million people.
The main parties implemented policies that resulted in large increases in non-European immigration. And this occurred while Australia's Total Fertility Rate remained at sub replacement levels (see Chart 1).
It is the main parties bipartisan support for mass immigration that is accelerating the cultural displacement of Anglo and European Australians.
(Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Births, Australia. Released 16/10/2024)
Population projections and immigration policy
The Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) developed population projections for policy makers since 1950.
This has enabled politicians and bureaucrats to formulate immigration and population policy in Australia for the past 75 years.
Government agencies such as the ABS generate long-term predictions based on trends.
Therefore, it’s not plausible for Australian politicians to be unaware that rapid population replacement of European Australians was occurring over several decades.
Population projections provide future scenarios based on past trends. This provides politicians and bureaucrats with the knowledge that continuing with mass non-European immigration could lead to Anglo-Celtic Australians plummeting to minority population status (less than 50%).
However, this had no influence on the Coalition immigration policy. They went in the opposite direction and decided to propel replacement-level immigration to a higher rate.
From the late 1990s though to 2021, the Coalition had a longer term in government than Labor. During this period they failed to pull back NOM to a moderate level of around 100,000 per year.
This would have significantly reduced the demographic decline of the white Australian population.
The Coalition nearly tripled NOM from under 100,000 in the late 1990s to over 230,000 in 2007.
The Labor government continued on with their bipartisan support for mass immigration.
They heeded no lessons from the previous failure of the Coalition government. Instead, Labor drove NOM up to extreme levels. Their immigration policy has been a momentous failure. NOM reached the highest on record by far, for a financial year, shooting up to 536,000 in 2022-23.
The rate of European replacement-level immigration in one financial year far exceeded that of the Coalition – in any comparative years during their spell in government.
However, it was a Coalition government that initially transformed immigration policy from a moderate migrant intake to replacement-level immigration.
In this context, it’s worth noting that NOM can be deceptive. For example, an NOM of zero could be leading to steady ethnic replacement.
It is feasible that a situation could arise in the future that 100,000 non-European migrants arrive in Australia and 100,000 European Australians depart from Australia. If this continued annually over a decade, zero net migration has the potential to bring about a significant amount of ethnic replacement.
If a nationalist movement begin to emerge in Australia and gain political power. An alternative immigration policy for nationalists to consider, is a zero-migration policy.
Nationalist policy makers could also develop strategies aimed at lifting Australia’s Total Fertility Rate.
Three years on from the 2021 Census: Mass immigration continues to decimate the Anglo-Australian majority.
What type of government allows their own people to be demographically replaced without having a political debate about an issue of such national importance?
The 2021 Census, demonstrated the extent to which government policy is accelerating the replacement of white Australians.
In 2021, only 51.7% of respondents to the ancestry question, identified as Anglo-Celtic Australian heritage (English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh ancestry).
Chart 2 below provides ample evidence that replacement-level immigration is now at an unprecedented level in Australia.
The Chart reveals that cumulative NOM (adding the total NOM for consecutive financial years from 2004-05 to 2023-24) reached a staggering 4.57 million migrants.
Net overseas migration constituted 63% of population growth over that period.
Australia's population has grown by a massive 7.2 million people in just 2 decades, from 2004 to 2024.
This is the type of unsustainable population growth that only political extremists would advocate for.
To put in perspective, Australia’s population growth in just 20 years amounts to more than the population of Scotland. A country that has existed for hundreds of years.
Australian politicians and bureaucrats have executed outrageous levels of immigration-fuelled population growth.
This prompts the question. Is Australia being governed by extremists?
Not only is record levels of immigration resulting in the cultural displacement of European Australians. But the housing situation for many Australians is intolerable.
For the year ending June 2024, 552,000 more people were added to Australia’s population. Net overseas migration made up 80% of the population growth.
Population growth remains significantly higher than the amount of new housing completions in Australia, which is around 176,000 new homes for the year ending June 2024.
The Albanese government mass immigration policy is the main reason Australians are struggling to access affordable housing in Australia’s major cities.
Australia has undergone an enormous increase in non- European immigration over the past 2 decades
Comparing the inflow and outflow of migrants by country of birth, provides a good indication of the rate of demographic transformation occurring in Australia.
The cumulative NOM intake soared to 4.81 million migrants from 2004 to 2024, while the net loss amounted to 238,000 Australian born citizens. This resulted in NOM reaching a net inflow of 4.57 million migrants (see Chart 2 below).
What this demonstrates is the European Australian population is undergoing rapid ethnic replacement primarily due to the large-scale intake of non-European migrants.
While mass non-European immigration is the main reason white Australians are hurtling towards minority status. Australia’s below replacement fertility rate is also compounding the rate of demographic decline (See Chart 1 above).
Chart 2 reveals that from 2004 to 2024 the increase of non-European migrants reached levels unobserved in the history of immigration to Australia. Over 3.83 million non-European people immigrated to Australia, comprising 78% of the total migrant influx.
Asian migrants made up 60% of the inflow. From 2004 to 2024 nearly 3 million long-term migrants arrived in Australia from the Asia Pacific Region.
The net outflow of 238,000 Australian born citizens from 2004-2024, is also contributing to the depletion of the Anglo and European Australian born population.
How can we be sure that most of the Australian born citizens that departed are of British heritage?
This assumption is based on the ancestry data in the 2021 Census. The ABS cultural summary from the Census demonstrate that English was the most common ancestry for first and second generation Australians, and the second most common for third-plus generation Australians.
This implies that that the majority of the Australian born citizens that emigrated from Australia over the past 2 decades are likely to originate from British and European stock.
(Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Overseas Migration. Released 13/12/2024)
Ethnic identity and social trust
The main Australian parties have allowed in huge numbers of non-European migrants over the past 2 decades, as illustrated in Chart 2 above.
In 2023-24, 84 percent of long-term migrant arrivals entered Australia from non-European countries (see Chart 3 below), 65% of these are migrants born in Asia Pacific Region countries.
While there has been an enormous scaling-up of non-European immigration to Australia, politicians appear uninformed by research which strongly indicates that migrants from some ethnic backgrounds are not culturally suitable or economically productive in western societies.
Many non-European ethnic groups are causing major social and crime problems in western nations. This is eroding social harmony and social trust.
In 2020 political scientists from Denmark conducted a meta-analytical review of ethnic diversity and social trust. The meta-analysis of 1,001 estimates from 87 studies found a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies.
It’s quite baffling that Australian politicians do not apply empirical evidence or assess the assimilation potential of new migrants, when formulating immigration policy.
In 2023-2024 over 23,000 migrants arrived in Australia from North Africa and the Middle East (see Chart 3 below)
Chart 3 also shows that in 2023-2024, the Albanese government provided 27,250 Australian visas to African migrants. The imprisonment rates and criminal activity of the African migrant population is of real concern.
African-born migrants are highly over-represented in Australian prisons. Migrants born in three African countries are in the top 5 list of criminals by nationality, in Australian prisons.
In order of imprisonment rates: No. 1 is Sudanese born prisoners, No. 2 is Somalian born prisoners, and No. 5 is Kenyan born prisoners.
African (predominantly South Sudanese) youth comprise at least 19 per cent of young people in custody despite being less than 0.5 per cent of Victoria's youth population.
Over 50,000 long-term migrants entered Australia from Africa and the Middle East in 2023-24.
This is significantly more than the 38,000 migrants that arrived in Australia from the British Isles and Western and Northern Europe.
Many of these British and European migrants share a common ethnic ancestry with white Australians whose ancestors founded and helped build Australia into a first world nation.
(Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Overseas Migration. Reference period 2023-24 financial year)
Australian Political Scientist Dr. Frank Salter demonstrates the genetic relatedness of European people in his book “On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration”.
Chart 3 also illustrates that a mere 6,270 Europeans settled in Australia from Southern and Eastern Europe.
The number of migrants from the Middle East and Africa vastly outnumber new migrants arriving from the Southern and Eastern regions of Europe.
And yet the history of immigration to Australia, post Second World War, proves that European people from Eastern and Southern Europe assimilated very well into Anglo-Australian society.
It’s also worth pointing out that a recent survey by The Australian Population Research Institute showed a big majority of migrants born in Europe, UK, Ireland, New Zealand and North America feel a strong sense of national belonging to Australia.
In comparison, a much lower proportion of Asian born voters feel a strong sense of belonging to Australia. The percentage of overseas born that feel a strong sense of national belonging to Australia is lowest among people born in Africa, the Middle East and Israel.
This indicates that it would surely be prudent for an Australian government to prioritise migrants from Europe the UK and the Anglosphere nations.
Conclusion
The statistics displayed in this paper demonstrate that the Coalition and Labor parties’ bipartisan immigration policy over the past two decades has dramatically altered the demographic and ethnic composition of Australian society.
Whether this is by design, or by politicians who do not care that Anglo-Celtic Australians are being replaced by non-European immigration and are plummeting towards minority group status, is the critical question Australians should be asking politicians.
Anglo-Australians have no desire to become a minority population in the nation that was founded and developed by their ancestors.
This research was primarily undertaken to highlight the diabolical predicament white Australians find themselves in due to bipartisan government immigration policy.
The statistics do not lie. They provide compelling evidence, that the main political parties have not simply used mass immigration to prop up the Australian economy. Their policies have resulted in the reduction of the white Australian population’s relative size and status.
It’s now up to the majority of Australians to hold their government to account and to oppose the mass-replacement level immigration, which is now occurring at scale and pace in Australia.
References
Salter, Frank. The Voice Referendum: A Statement on Behalf of the British Australian Community (p. 23). Social Technologies. Kindle Edition.
Salter, Frank. The Voice Referendum: A Statement on Behalf of the British Australian Community (p. 24). Social Technologies. Kindle Edition.
The fact that non European migrants are favoured seems to indicate the motive is not solely about production, consumption or societal standards. It hints at a destruction of what we know as traditional Australian culture.