# Net overseas migration records an all-time high in 2022–23

Date: 2023

## The fact

In 2022–23, ABS overseas-migration statistics recorded a net gain on the order of 500,000-plus people, later revised toward about 538,000, the largest financial-year NOM since records began. Temporary students dominated arrivals after COVID reopening.

## Context

Border reopening sat as parent. Neighbouring 2024–25 NOM decline is a child. He did not sit as Home Affairs processing every visa.

Housing Accord 2023 is a neighbour supply file. 2024–25 NOM is a child still-high year.

The Prime Minister of Australia chairs Cabinet and advises the Governor-General. Parliament enacts; the Governor-General assents. He does not write a High Court judgment, a state housing approval, or a US AUKUS submarine yard print.

## Evidence and sources

Australian Bureau of Statistics carries the official instrument or communique. SBS News records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power) and [migration-policy restrictiveness](/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness): a completed record NOM year against a tight housing market.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2022–23 record NOM, independently placed on ABS prints under his premiership.

Not established: a unique later rent coefficient from that financial year, or that every arrival was a unique later dwelling demand unit he personally allocated.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Home Affairs issued visas. States share housing supply. COVID closure sat as parent weather.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Net overseas migration records an all-time high in 2022–23, not a later speech about Net overseas migration records an all-time high in 2022–23.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Net overseas migration records an all-time high in 2022–23 on 2023-06-30 is not a licence to treat every later Australian Bureau of Statistics communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Net overseas migration records an all-time high in 2022–23 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Cabinet owned migration settings after reopening. Home Affairs issued visas. States share housing supply. COVID closure sat as parent weather. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Anthony Albanese: https://factrail.ai/people/anthony-albanese

## Drivers

- Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power
- Migration-policy restrictiveness and border control: https://factrail.ai/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness

## Sources

- https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/one-nation-immigration-target-130000-nom-explained/5nxmzgngv
- https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/2022-23-financial-year

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-nom-peak-2023