How John Howard boosted migration and embraced foreign students, in five charts
ABCFormer prime minister Tony Abbott wants Australia to cut its immigration intake to what it was under the Howard government. Changes in Australia's immigration sector were significant under Mr Howard, but not because his government kept the permanent intake — now at 190,000 visas per year — low. Share of population growth Every year since John Howard lost the 2007 election to Kevin Rudd, more of Australia's population growth has been attributed to migration than a natural increase due to births. However the latter years of Mr Howard's prime ministership delivered significant increase to net overseas migration as a proportion of the population. Migration intake The planned size of the migration program — the number of permanent visas the government plans to grant each year — was reduced in the early Howard years.
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