Recent survey reveals Australians do not want higher immigration levels
This week, the Australian Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) released the results of a comprehensive survey of the attitudes of Australians toward immigration.
The survey sampled 1,900 Australian citizens and found that 79% do not want high immigration levels, preferring that there were 100,000 immigrants or less per annum.
The most recent immigration figures under the current government is close to half a million per year (actual figure being 424,357 new immigrants per year). At a national level, this includes 75% of first generation migrants and 74% of non-citizens.
Respondents were forthright in their decisions, with 54% of people saying they no longer recognise the country they grew up in.
Says IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild, “Australia’s political establishment has failed our nation with years of unrestrained mass migration without providing adequate infrastructure, and without enforcing a meaningful values test on migrants who come here.”
A staggering 48% of Australians believe the federal government is deliberately bringing migrants to Australia who are more likely to vote for the government at an election.
Further, 77% of Australians believe that people who want to come to Australia should be required to sign up to a set of Australian values and standards, and should be deported if they fail to uphold these standards and values, while only 7% disagree.
Mass immigration brings with it a host of problems for a nation, particularly in difficult economic times. Already Australia has issues with our lack of proper infrastructure for a greater population – this includes factors such as not enough housing, not enough hospital beds for the ill and the injured, an unpredictable transport system in several states, congested traffic, least of all a lack of jobs availability.
This survey comes on the back of analysis released earlier this week by the IPA based on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics which found that net permanent and long-term arrivals totalled 494,540 in the twelve months to January 2026, the highest in recorded history.
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