Visas rocket back
Temporary visa holder numbers increased to 2,209,907 in October, up by around +64,000 from a month earlier.
This represents an increase of +567,000 from the lockdown lows of Q3 2021.
Tourism has yet to rebound strongly, but other categories such as temporary employment and working holiday maker visas are rebounding apace.
Excluding visitor visas, the numbers have almost returned to their pre-pandemic levels, being up at around 1.9 million.
There will be further increases over the period ahead, with student visa holder numbers are still more than ¼ million below where they were three years earlier.
As previously noted increase of ½ million will help to solve the labour shortage, but exacerbate the rental shortage.
