By Nicole Hasham Overseas-born Australian residents reach 120-year high The proportion of Australians born overseas has hit a 120-year high, including a near-tripling during the past decade of the number of Australian residents born in India, new figures show. 
The data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, released on Wednesday, also reveals that Victoria again gained the most new residents from interstate last financial year, with a net gain of 10,200 people.
The percentage of Australian residents born overseas has increased every year for the past 15 years and, in   June last year, reached 28.2per cent, or 6.7million people. This is the highest rate since the late 1800s. People from Britain remained the largest group of overseas-born residents, forming 5.1per cent of the Australian population, or 1.2million people. This proportion has decreased slightly during the past decade. New Zealand-born residents make up the next largest group (2.6per cent), followed by China (2per cent), India (1.8per cent) and the Philippines and Vietnam (both 1per cent).
The number of Australian residents born in India has almost tripled during the past 10 years to about 433,000. In the same period, residents born in China have more than doubled to almost 482,000.
ABS spokeswoman Beidar Cho said the increasing median age of Italian-born migrants - from 64.7 years in 2005 to 69.3 years in 2015 - reflected a drop in recent migration from that country.
Conversely, the median age of Indian migrants had fallen in the same period from 37 to 33.4 years.
Victoria was the top performer on interstate migration last financial year, with a net gain of 10,200 people from other states and territories, compared with 8800 the previous year. Queensland came in second with 6400 interstate migrants, and NSW suffered a net loss of 6600. NSW received the highest number of overseas migrants last financial year - 66,100 people. Tasmania received the lowest number, at 1000 people.