A tour brochure produced for British travellers to Australia lays bare the demographic changes that have taken place in the last 60 years due to mass third world immigration.
The travel guide, printed by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in 1967, has a “people” section that notes the population in 1966 was only 11,400,000, just over a third of the current 27,900,000.
The brochure goes on to say the population was “90% of British stock, less than 85% Australian born. 54% live in the six capital cities; 38% in and around Sydney and Melbourne alone”.
“Immigration figures are increasing steadily year by year: approximately one in every six Australians is a migrant of the post-war period. Australian Aborigines, whose origins are obscure but pre-date European civilisation, number some 40,081 full-bloods, and about 31,000 of half-Aboriginal blood,” it states.
“We were never diverse,” said the brochure owner, who shared it with Noticer News.
The figures from the brochure stand in stark contrast to those from the 2021 Census, which itself has been followed by the largest intake of immigrants in Australian history – about 2 million immigrants have arrived since Labor was elected in 2022, mainly from non-English speaking countries.
In 2021 just 66.9% of the population of 25,422,788 was born in Australia, and 72% spoke only English at home. 33% gave their ancestry as English, 29.9% as Australian, 9.5% as Irish, and 8.6% as Scottish, although respondents were allowed to report up to two ancestries on the Census form.
The aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander population was 812,728, or 3.2% of the population, up from 649,168 (2.8%) five years earlier.
The tour brochure was printed a year after Prime Minister Harold Holt announced the end of the White Australia Policy, paving the way for the arrival of millions of non-White immigrants who now outnumber Australians across large swathes of Sydney and Melbourne.
The post-2022 flood of immigrants has sparked concerns about demographic replacement, leading to the emergence of the March for Australia movement, and One Nation leading in the polls nationwide, as well as in NSW and Victoria.
Header image: Left, the BOAC brochure. Right, Melbourne in 1966 (National Film and Sound Archive of Australia).
