India surpasses England as Australia's largest migrant group
Indians have now become Australia's largest migrant population, overtaking the English for the first time. This demographic shift underscores immigration's growing prominence as a political issue in Australia.
Indians are now Australiaโs largest migrant group, supplanting the English for the first time ever, in a change that highlights the rise of immigration as an increasingly contentious political issue. Some 971,020 people in Australia โ or 5.2 per cent of the population โ were born in India, narrowly surpassing the 970,950 born in England, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The England-born population slipped from just over 1 million in 2013. The third-largest cohort...