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Brits still flocking to WA
Western Australia remains the number one Australian destination for Oz-bound migrants leaving the UK
Immigration statistics released in April show that 3,416 Brits flocked to WA between June and December 2005, ahead of 2,644 who settled in Queensland and 2,380 who went to New South Wales.
In total 12,167 UK-based migrants emigrated Down Under in this period making Britain the biggest source country for new Australian immigrants.This represented a massive 70.8 per cent (3,549) increase on the amount who entered Oz in the same period of 2004. New Zealand (8,602) and China (5,102) were the next most popular source countries.
Queensland experienced the biggest percentage increase in British migrants (78.9 per cent) while New South Wales (78.8 per cent) and Victoria (70.6 per cent) also enjoyed healthy increases.
The smallest percentage increase in British migrants occurred in South Australia (42.4 per cent), although just over 35 per cent of the 4,396 migrants that did settle there were from the UK, making it the state with the second-highest proportion of British settlers behind WA where 38.4 per cent of newcomers were British.
Tasmania and the Northern Territory were the only two destinations to receive fewer British migrants compared to the same six-month period of 2004.
Western Australia is now well established as the most popular destination for British-based migrants having displaced long time Brit hot-spot New South Wales two years ago. However, NSW is still the number one destination in terms of total immigrant numbers with 22,956 new permanent residents arriving in this period. Western Australia was only fourth most popular overall (8,885) while the Northern Territory welcomed the least amount of migrants (360).
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14 December 2006