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Re:Irish vet fails oral English test needed to stay in Austr... by grecy on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:16AM (#14956970)
That wikipedia page stats are over a 5 year period, for every country

So the 1,023,107 listed from 2007-2012 is 204,621 per year.

Sounds spot on to me.

>Further, about half those ~200,000 per year go to people already in Australia

Sure, but they are not permanent in Australia, and immigration means they became permanent. It's not really relevant where they started from.

Australia is allowing ~1 million people each 5 years to becoming permanent, which is a huge number... in fact 8th in the world overall.

It's the same for every other country, so the comparison to other countries is still spot on.

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Re:Irish vet fails oral English test needed to stay in Austr... by adventured on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:20AM (#14957009)
Correct you are. I thought the wiki reference was annual, having to do with the far larger temporary work immigration that Australia allows.
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