Australia is now home to more than 27 million people but policies over the last decade have failed to deliver the housing needed, an expert warns.
Some experts have said Australia reaching the milestone was a moment to consider the challenges and opportunities the country faces in the future.Annual population growth was driven largely by overseas migration, while all states and territories had positive population growth over the year.Some experts have said Australia needed long-term housing policy and more investment in social housing to address issues surrounding population growth.
"A type of population panic, we see this play out … we see particularly politicians and commentators who perhaps are unhappy with the way the country is headed and blame the population for policy failures," she said.Dr Allen said it could affect social cohesion and potentially drive harmful rhetoric around migration when Australia's population change was problematised.
"That's not the fault of population, it's the problem of planning. We've seen over time in Australia, with successive governments at the federal, state and territory levels, an unwillingness to invest in big spending that exceeds the life of a political cycle," she said. " relatively modest, sort of eye-catching and unusual proposals being made by the government, but no sense of a plan to deal with the systemic issues that we have in our housing system," he said."When we could have done a much quicker and more effective boost to social housing just by going through the established channels," he said.
"If that sector was to meet all of our all of current unmet housing needs in the community, and the projected growth … over the next 20 years, the existing social housing system would need to triple in size," he said.There's been a decline in births with about a 1.7 per cent decrease from the previous year to March 2024.
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