This report contains 15 chapters, 5 appendices and 4 online only technical supplements.

Chapter 1 presents relevant background information for this report.

Chapter 2 provides an overview of Australia's immigration system and trends in immigration to Australia.

Chapter 3 explains the Commission's approach to this inquiry and the links between immigration, population and economic growth. It also includes an outline of the framework used to assess the costs and benefits of immigration.

Chapters 4 and 5 outline the general characteristics of immigrants and their labour market outcomes, respectively. Both chapters focus on how these differ from the Australian-born population on average and across visa categories.

Chapters 6 to 10 examine the labour market, environmental, social, fiscal and long-term impacts of immigration on the Australian community, respectively. The Commission's assessment of the overall impacts of immigration is set out in chapter 10.

Chapters 11 to 13 assess the current arrangements for temporary immigration, the interaction between temporary and permanent immigration, and permanent immigration, respectively.

Chapter 14 examines the potential impacts of a proposal to use price as the primary basis for determining the intake of permanent immigrants.

Chapter 15 considers other options for visa charging.

Appendix A outlines the conduct of the inquiry, including consultations undertaken and lists the submissions received.

Appendix B presents an overview of immigration systems in Canada, New Zealand and the United States.

Appendix C provides more detailed data on the labour market outcomes of immigrants.

Appendix D covers the potential impacts of immigration on Australia's youth labour market.

Appendix E provides further information on investor visas.

Technical supplement A presents an econometric analysis of the impact of immigration on the labour market outcomes of Australian-born people and immigrants who have been in Australia longer than 5 years.

Technical supplements B to D outline the approaches taken by, and the results of, the Commission's computable general equilibrium, partial equilibrium and fiscal modelling, respectively.