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The University of Wollongong SMART Infrastructure Facility’s ‘Vision Illawarra’ project has been awarded a funding grant that will enable the planning tool to become an effective platform across Australia.
The tool, that gives local councils access to curated utility data, demographic data, as well as transport and land use models, was identified by the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) as a High Impact Project, that was seen as a suitable program for funding.
SMART’s Chief Operating Officer Tania Brown says Vision Illawarra will be immensely beneficial for local councils across various regions nationwide.
“This web-based regional dashboard uses data from Australian Bureau of Statistics, Remondis, Endeavour Energy and Sydney Water and enables councils to test planning policy scenarios and make evidence based decisions. With this funding we can now share Vision Illawarra with other regions across Australia.”
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at 10:20 am on April 26, 2021 | 13 comments
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Friday released data showing that thousands of Australians have ditched Sydney and Melbourne and moved to South East Queensland (SEQ).
As shown in the next chart, 30,087 residents left Sydney in the 2020 Financial Year, whereas 9,266 residents left Melbourne over the same period. By contrast, Brisbane gained 13,779 residents from the rest of Australia.
Brisbane has gained nearly 13,800 residents from the rest of the nation, particularly Sydney and Melbourne.
The gains extend to the Gold Coast (+6,709) and Sunshine Coast (+6,230), which were the two biggest recipients on internal migration in the 2020 Financial Year, whereas Sydney and Melbourne areas experienced the biggest loss of residents over the same period:
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For years population boosters have told us that Australia needs to run a ‘strong’ migration program to mitigate an ageing population.
The argument always goes something like this: migrants tend to be younger than the existing population. Therefore, importing people via immigration necessarily lowers the average age of the population, alleviating the ‘problem’ of population ageing.
Anybody with a shred of common sense can work out that this argument is spurious given migrants also age. Therefore, immigration can at best only delay population ageing, while also adding a host of other economic and environmental costs from having a substantially larger population, including lower wages for workers, crush-loaded infrastructure, increased traffic congestion, forcing people to live in apartments rather than houses, and environmental degradation.
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