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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.
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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.
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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.
Just three out of every 10 people believe the country needs more people, a survey by the Australian National University has revealed.
South Australia will lobby for bigger population growth when the nation’s premiers and Prime Minister Scott Morrison meet in Adelaide this week.
New projections show that South Australia could enter population decline around the middle of this century, underlining the need for firm policy action, argue Michael O’Neil and Peter Gill from the South Australian Centre for Economic Studies.
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