Australia expands her intake of new migrants every year.There are visa opportunities for young professionals, for skilled trades people, for students, for those with special talents, for senior managerial staff, for business people. There are openings for people with imagination, for those who know they can make a go of it in the right place at the right time.

The overall level of immigration has grown substantially during the last decade. Net overseas migrations increased from 30,000 in 1993 to 118,000 in 2003-04.The largest components of immigration are the skilled migration and family re-union programs. In recent years the mandatory detention of unauthorized arrivals by boat has generated great levels of controversy.

During the 2004-05, total 123,424 people immigrated to Australia. Of them, 17,736were from Africa, 54,804 from Asia, 21,131 from Oceania, 18,220 from United Kingdom, 1,506 from South America, and 2,369 from Eastern Europe. 131,000 people migrated to Australia in 2005-06 and migration target for 2006-07 was 144,000.

According to one researcher, there are thousands of low-cost IT workers entering Australia who are under mining the job prospects of new computer science graduates and reducing salaries in the IT industry. However, other research sponsored by DIAC has found that Australia's structured labour market along with the larger number of immigrants with higher education levels has tended to raise employment levels for Australians who are relatively unskilled.

Australian trade unions have sometimes exposed attempts by employers to introduce foreign workers into the country in order to avoid paying local workers higher wages. The government's policy of mandatory detention, especially regarding the impact upon children, has come under criticism from a range of religious, community and political groups including the National Council of Churches, Amnesty International, Australian Democrats, Australian Greens and Rural Australians for Refugees.

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