More than 900,000 immigrants on permanent and temporary visas enter Australia each year. Most live and work in Australian capital cities, and immigrants are more urbanised than the average Australian today.
However, in the past decade or so, new visa pathways have opened up to attract new immigrant workers and their families to the Australian bush.
Increased chances of selection attracts permanent skilled immigrants to accept employment in regional and rural towns.
At the same time, increasing numbers of temporary migrants on working holiday, student and skilled 457 visas are attracted to the bush.
A new program for Pacific Seasonal Workers has also been introduced.
With that, immigrant workers add substantially to productivity in the agricultural industry, a new report reveals.
