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The lucky country needs a bigger Australia ambition
On census night in August last year, Australia’s population had swelled to 25.5 million. Tripling this over the next 70 years to 75 million will require political leadership.
The 2021 census underlines Australia’s demographic destiny as an increasingly diverse migrant and multicultural nation.
The census shows that migrants from India have overtaken China as the largest source of “new Australians”. As with the waves of people arriving from southern Europe after 1945 and from Asia after the formal end of the White Australia Policy in 1973, immigration continues to reshape the complexion of the nation – which, as the census also shows, is also becoming less Christian.
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