"I never really thought about having the British Government help us with immigration either," Arthur nodded, smiling as he said, "For us, the immigration plan not facing obstruction and opposition from the British Government is already a success."
Although Australia could not stop the majority of immigration heading toward the United States at present, it could still rely on its own development and friendly relations with the United Kingdom and Germany to attract a portion of that immigration to Australia.
As long as it could attract around one-tenth of the total European immigration volume, as many as seventy to eighty thousand Europeans would head to Australia every year.
Was a proportion of one-tenth huge? In fact, it was not. In original history, ever since the Federal Government was formed, Australia had liberalized its immigration policy and begun attracting immigrants on a large scale.
This also caused Australia's population to skyrocket from just over 3.7 million to over 19.4 million during the 100-year span from the early 20th century to the early 21st century, an increase of nearly six times.
During this century, an average of over 100,000 people immigrated to Australia every year, becoming Australia's permanent residents and full citizens.
Among them, European immigrants accounted for a very large share, with at least fifty to sixty thousand Europeans heading to Australia annually.
All of this was an achievement based on Australia having no help whatsoever. Now, with Arthur's help, Australia had sufficient development funds along with aid from the United Kingdom and Germany, and its sphere of influence had also expanded in advance to New Zealand and British New Guinea.
On the premise of having neither external enemies nor internal troubles, it possessed a golden period of development. Such an Australia would also see its attractiveness to Europeans increase, and