Society & Rights April 30, 2026 343 stories in this edition

India overtakes England to become Australia’s largest migrant group

SCMP Asia / Asia / 1m ago / Bloomberg
India overtakes England to become Australia’s largest migrant group

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Indians are now Australia’s 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 – or 5.2 per cent of the population – were born in India, narrowly surpassing the 970,950 born in England, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The England-bo...

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Indians are now Australia’s 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...

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