{"id":667542,"date":"2026-05-13T05:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/667542\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:21:12","slug":"net-permanent-long-term-arrivals-strong-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/667542\/","title":{"rendered":"Net permanent &#038; long-term arrivals strong in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanese government continues to import people into Australia at a rapid pace, with 40,400 net permanent and long-term (NPLT) arrivals in March, the second-highest March total on record, after 2023 (44,580).<\/p>\n<p>In the year to March 2026, 486,300 NPLT arrivals landed in Australia, just below the all-time highs of 498,270 in February 2024 and 494,540 in January 2026:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NPLT-arrivals.png\" width=\"628\" height=\"433\" alt=\"NPLT arrivals\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The annual breakdown of arrivals and departures is provided below. In the year to March, a record high of 1,164,540 persons arrived in Australia on a long-term or permanent basis, which was partially offset by 678,240 long-term and permanent departures, slightly fewer than the record high.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Australian-long-term-arrivals.png\" width=\"588\" height=\"455\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Long term arrivals and departures\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Albanese government continues to import people into Australia at a rapid pace, with 40,400 net permanent and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-667542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}