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Three major factors are driving Australia’s immigration intake to record highs. All of them start in the centre of Australia’s largest cities.

The CBDs and surrounding suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney are where universities are filled with international students, as well as bars, offices and delivery services that thrive on the backs of foreign workers – and where most backpackers first land.

Australia’s permanent migration intake has barely changed over the past decade, hovering around 200,000 a year under Labor and the Coalition.

But the…

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