Overseas, please contact your nearest Australian diplomatic office . This fact sheet can also be viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader and MS Word97 . This is a brief summary of key immigration and migrant settlement statistics.
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Since 1945, almost 5.7 million people have come to Australia as new settlers. They have had a marked influence on all aspects of our society. Agreements were reached with Britain, some European countries and with the International Refugee Organisation to encourage migration, including displaced people, from war-torn Europe. Today, nearly one in four of Australia's 19 million people was born overseas. For the past three financial years New Zealand displaced Britain as the largest source birthplace of migrants.