Population Statement News Today

Queensland has topped CommSec’s State of the States report for the first time in its 13-year history.

Troubled by the country’s ageing population, the government is cautiously remaking the case for a bigger Australia, but on its own terms.

As in the US, Europe and elsewhere, the fall in life expectancy is a historical retrogression reversing a decades-long trend.

South Australian Wine Industry Association chief executive Brian Smedley says “our population has to increase”.

It’s the sting in the tail from news this week that Australia’s population will grow more slowly and be 1.2 million smaller in a decade than anticipated.

Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as the countrys biggest city within a decade, according to new data fr...

Australia’s two most populous states will play bridesmaids to Queensland on population growth for a few more years as the Sunshine states lures in more residents.

Melbourne is finally set to knock Sydney off as Australia’s biggest city within the decade despite a short-term exodus due to the pandemic.

Overseas migrants are finally returning to Australian shores after the COVID-19 pandemic caused migration levels drop to record lows not seen since the Second World War. 

Jim Chalmers has welcomed a post-COVID surge in fertility rates but has argued more must be done to address the ageing population, which poses a threat to the workforce.