Australia's permanent migration report, released yesterday, shows that the United Kingdom remains the country's biggest source of permanent migrants, followed by India and China.

Bucking a historical trend, the UK's share of the permanent migration program increased 9 per cent in the year ended June 30. There were 30,590 permanent migrants from the UK, up from 28,029 the previous year. But at 17.9 per cent of the permanent migration pool, the UK intake is still a significant reduction from 2005-06, when it was 22.5 per cent.

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