Australian economy: Queensland hits the jackpot to top CommSec State of the States report for first time
Queensland has topped CommSec’s State of the States report for the first time in its 13-year history.
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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.