In this series,The Age explores how Geelong,Ballarat,Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga will change in the coming decades.
The state’s big regional cities are hurtling towards radical demographic change. Here’s where things have gone wrong - and what needs to improve.
In the 1970s,town planners set out to create a metropolis on the river. They almost made it. Today,single people live in giant houses they don’t need as the cities scramble to fit people in.
The Commonwealth Games promised to hoist Geelong onto the world stage,but as the dream of co-hosting the event came crashing down,the city’s ‘dingy’ areas are in the spotlight again.
Use these interactive maps to find out how many people have moved into your neighbourhood from NSW and Victoria.
The Australian graduate visa system is delivering perverse outcomes. The government needs to reverse course,and quickly.
These interactive maps show how many people have moved north of the border from Sydney.
Australia needs hundreds of thousands of new homes,but it can’t build them without more migrant workers. It’s a problem ripe for politics.
The country’s population grew by 563,200 in the past 12 months as migrants,particularly international students,rushed back.
New research shows dine-in restaurants serve a social purpose in a place where religion is no longer the glue that binds people across class.
James Liang is the chairman of one of China’s top companies. He just started paying his employees $10k to have babies.