A Gold Coast tourism campaign once urged visitors to “come back and play”, but new population data shows many Australians are instead deciding to stay.
A Gold Coast tourism campaign once urged visitors to “come back and play”, but new population data reveals many Australians are instead deciding to stay.
Regional Australia’s population grew by 832,000, or 11 per cent, while the number of people living in the capitals rose by 2.5 million, or 17 per cent. The latest figures also show the extent of the population boom in the outer suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne, which saw the biggest increases among metropolitan regions.
Some mining and outback areas experienced population declines, including Mount Isa in Queensland and Ashburton in Western Australia.The trends were in line with shorter-term figures on population movements released quarterly by the Regional Australia Institute and based on Commonwealth Bank borrowing data.
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