Squeeze is on as Australia's populations boom

Almost 10 million migrants over the next 50 years will  swell Australia's  population to more than 40 million by 2060 and more than 50 million by 2100,  under dramatically higher new projections by the Bureau of Statistics.

 

The projections, the first for five years, envisage tens of millions more  people crowding into Australia's capital cities over the next 50 years,  overwhelmingly due to migration.

 

By 2060, the bureau estimates, Melbourne will have 8.5 million people, twice  as many as now. Even by 2050, it would have 1.2 million more people than the  state government assumed in its core planning strategy, Plan Melbourne,  released last month.

By then Sydney would have 8.4 million, an increase of 80 per cent from now. 

 

Perth would more than double to 5.5 million people, and Brisbane to 4.8 million.  Both cities would be bigger than Sydney is now.

 

Melbourne would overtake Sydney  in 2053.

 

Those four cities, the migrant magnets of Australia, would add 14 million of  the 18.4 million extra people envisaged by 2060.

 

The rest of Queensland would add 2 million, the ACT would double to almost  750,000, but in much of the rest of Australia - South Australia, Tasmania, and  regional NSW and Victoria - population growth will either reverse or slow to  minimal levels by 2050.

 

Migration would become the driving source of Australia's growth. The bureau's  central projection assumes a long-run average net gain of 240,000 migrants a  year, roughly current levels.

That already generates 60 per cent of Australia's population growth, but that  would rise to two-thirds over the forecast period as the society ages.

 

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8.4 Mil for Sydney? And I thought the traffic was bad now!

 

Smiley Surprised

 

 

 

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:
I like Adelaide.That's what's good about it.It doesn't change.

   i was hoping at least some of them were dead.

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Well, there's a lot of tacky new housing estates going up and the Hills farmland is slowly being taken over for housing.

 

Guess we can always buy our food from China, eh? Once we dust the asbestos off the bags, that is. 😉

 

 

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Adelaide.The only place in Australia where the bogans sound like they were educated at Eton.
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Some of them are dead. It's just that I still see them in Coles buying junk food and Mcdrinks and the Advertiser.

They are dead, they just refuse to fall down.

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Adelaide.The only place in Australia where the bogans sound like they were educated at Eton.

 i get that in victoria. 'you must have gone to a fine school' Smiley LOL  my sister rang me once, i had no idea who the english lady on the phone was until she told me.

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Some of them are dead. It's just that I still see them in Coles buying junk food and Mcdrinks and the Advertiser.

They are dead, they just refuse to fall down.


 but acacia, they are everywhere  .. hardly poor old colonel light's fault Smiley Happy

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Colonel Light must've had cataracts 🙂
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the statue in nth adelaide (of light) is extremely difficult to climb.  in fact i challenge anyone to do it without ropes or similar aids. i watched someone try for hours once. Smiley Happy

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I guess he wasn't really trying.

 

This guy is a real tryer, don't ya think?

 

 

Look at me everyone!

 

He climbed the balls in Rundle Mall, but I'm sure he had "a little help from his friends" 😉

 

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/kudla-man-28-reported-for-disorderly-behaviour-af...

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he must have. a cherry picker maybe Smiley LOL

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