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The coronavirus pandemic has exposed South Australia’s reliance on overseas migration to fill jobs, reduce the rate of the state’s ageing population and drive the economy, according to the University of Adelaide’s SA Centre for Economic Studies.
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South Australia’s population growth continued to trail all other states when coronavirus hit, with the pandemic predicted to see numbers go backwards – an outcome that could wreak a “devastating” impact on the broader economy.
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Migration experts warn a new plan spruiked as driving population growth in South Australia is practically “problematic, risky and very costly” to local businesses because the government hasn’t got the policy settings right.
South Australia’s outgoing minister responsible for population hopes new figures showing a long-awaited decline in young people leaving the state are a sign SA has “turned the corner” – but a new plan to boost local migrant numbers has drawn the ire of a former Immigration supremo.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has come to Adelaide to spruik moves to grow South Australia’s population, while at the same time again raising the spectre of cutting Australia’s migration cap.
When political leadership over the population issue falters, a sociobiological virus from a darker era begins to fester in our largest cities, argues Malcolm King.
