Indians drive record surge in temporary visas

The Department of Home Affairs released temporary visa data for the September quarter of 2024, revealing that there were 2,463,600 temporary visa holders in Australia, excluding visitors, at the end of September.

This was an all-time high for the September quarter and a 163,600 rise over the same time in 2023. There were also nearly 500,000 more temporary visas on issue in Australia than in September 2019 before the pandemic.

As Justin Fabo of Antipodean Macro shows below, September also set a new record for temporary migration in seasonally adjusted terms.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.