252,312is the number of employed temporary residents.
73,084is the number of employed temporary residents from Oceania, mainly New Zealand.
62,928is the number of employed temporary residents from South-East and North-East Asia.
Opposition leader Michael Daley’s “statement of fact” that young people are moving out of Sydney and are “being replaced by international workers” from Asia is not true, according to a newly compiled Australian Bureau of Statistics data set.
“It’s just a statement of fact that our young people are moving out of Sydney because they can’t afford to live here and they’re being replaced by international workers,” Mr Daley said in September last year, in a video that has resurfaced three days before the state election.
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Tim Boyd is a journalist, based in Sydney, who writes for the Street Talk column. Connect with Tim on Twitter. Email Tim at tim.boyd@afr.com
