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“Australia’s population is ageing more quickly than previously expected, driven by a rapid decline in the number of births per woman.”

“For Chalmers, the quintet includes the rise of artificial intelligence, the clean energy transition, Australia’s ageing population, industrial transformation and geopolitical fragmentation.”

“…casts by the federal government predict sweeping changes to Australia over the next 40 years driven by AI and the energy transition as the population ages and geopolitical fragmentation continues, but debt and deficit could spiral if productivity woes…”

“Kilkenny said outer-ring growth suburbs had also carried a disproportionate share of population growth.”

““It is challenging, but that’s the nature of Australia with high population growth – we all want to live in these capital cities by the coast, and that does create demand that pushes up prices.””

“The move, however, requires the support of more than half the EU’s 27 member countries representing at least 65 per cent of the EU population, which is a steep hurdle.”

“The government’s lack of interest probably stems from the fact the longstanding quick fix for plunging birthrates in Australia and across the Western world has been to boost the population via migration.”

“Further, digital games development in Australia over the past decade increased by an average annual growth rate of 13.1 per cent.”

“She also owns land in Yeppoon, described by property developers and news outlets as a “new Byron Bay” due to its natural beauty, expanding population and house price growth.”

“The proposed solution therefore creates the next demographic problem, requiring still more population growth.”

“There are now more than 3 million temporary visa holders in Australia, effectively creating an underclass of migrant workers who now count for more than 16 per cent of the working-age population.”

“But growth in the nighttime economy isn’t solely tied to western Sydney’s population growth.”

“As Loftsson sees it, there is no moral or ethical difference between killing, say, a cow, a kangaroo or a whale for human consumption, so long as their populations are healthy and the slaughter humane.”

“Paul Duncan, Leura As a teacher of Australian history for 25 years in schools with very mixed ethnic populations, can I say that I see little wrong with Julian Leeser’s policy?”

“Now his party wants to cut immigration by 750,000 temporary migrants, and put Australia into three years of population decline before stabilising at 130,000 a year, 100,000 fewer than the government’s target.”

“In the pristine waters around this South Pacific outcrop, 1400 kilometres from the Australian mainland, the tiger sharks grow fat on juicy mutton birds and beef offal.”

“Australia is “chasing away success”, according to the Melbourne-born billionaire, and entrepreneurs like him will keep leaving with one-way tickets because of exceedingly harsh tax settings.”

“Former prime minister John Howard says immigration has been one of Australia’s great success stories and that the best way for politicians to deal with the rise of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is to not pay her too much attention.”

“The PEP laws were applied disproportionately to Aboriginal people, who were the recipients of 41.6 per cent of short-term exclusion orders, despite representing 3.3 per cent of the population.”

“In racing parlance, Australia needs to win the population growth stakes by a short half head, not the length of the straight.”

“In one of the more remarkable political performances of the week, Australians were effectively told by Tony that the property squeeze isn’t really about record population growth colliding with chronic underbuilding.”

“…nezer’s southern edge sits right on the development fringe reshaping Australia’s cities, from The Ponds in Sydney’s north-west to Tarneit in south-west Melbourne, driven partly by populations more likely to come from Kolkata or Manila than Edinburgh or…”

“Like so many Western nations, natural population growth in Australia has stalled, but migration has kept the numbers up.”

“Australia’s population growth has slowed to its lowest non-pandemic rate in 15 years with net overseas migration dropping below 300,000 for the first time since the Albanese government came to power.”

“Former Labor adviser and migration expert Henry Sherrell last month called for a ceiling of one per cent population growth from immigration.”

“…on is proposing to radically reduce the figure for three years, temporarily reducing Australia’s population, a proposal large business groups said would trigger a recession, before settling after three years on a net overseas migration target of about…”

“Although its growth of 2 per cent over the year to June sounds reasonable, the great majority of that growth is attributable to our growing population.”

“Western Sydney was undergoing rapid population growth, inflation was low, interest rates were falling and a new generation of migrant families was looking to buy.”

“But its 2026 annual report, published in August, presents a more bullish position about its build-to-rent growth strategy, telling investors that Australia’s housing crunch is fertile ground.”