Phase 3: Contemporary Australia

Governments emphasise the economic benefits of migration, regional settlement goals, and international obligations.

Under the Anthony Albanese government, Australia has committed to a humanitarian intake planning level of 20,000 for successive years (the highest since the Vietnam War era).

The shift from British to Asian and other sources of migration is striking: by the early twenty‐first century, countries such as India, China and the Philippines became major source countries for Australian permanent migration.

By 1973 the full elimination of racial criteria from immigration law occurred, and in 1975 the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 made race‐based discrimination illegal.