Babies are the business,but please don’t mansplain declining fertility rates
Opinion
Fertility

Babies are the business,but please don’t mansplain declining fertility rates

I do sometimes wonder how many consecutive days some commentators have spent looking after children,alone,while also running a household and working a job.

  • byJacqueline Maley

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NSW,Victoria to grow by a million more people over a decade,adding to housing challenge

NSW,Victoria to grow by a million more people over a decade,adding to housing challenge

Sydney and Melbourne will bear the brunt of the population growth across the two states,according to ABS projects,as governments scramble to tackle a housing affordability crisis.

  • byLisa Visentin
Victorian families go backwards at fastest pace in the nation

Victorian families go backwards at fastest pace in the nation

Households in the state have suffered their biggest financial hit in more than 30 years amid cost-of-living pressures,mortgage pain and soaring population growth.

  • byJosh Gordon
We need migrants to build more homes:Immigration minister
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Immigration

We need migrants to build more homes:Immigration minister

Andrew Giles says while the population is lower than forecast before the pandemic,the nation was experiencing “significant pressure points” in the housing market.

  • byAngus Thompson
Booming population is part of our sticky inflation dilemma
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Inflation

Booming population is part of our sticky inflation dilemma

Rapid population growth is one of several forces making the decline in inflation slower than the RBA had hoped.

  • byClancy Yeates
Look at the evidence:Cutting immigration would be a mistake for Australia

Look at the evidence:Cutting immigration would be a mistake for Australia

Fearmongering about migration is,variously,misguided,premised on faulty logic or straight-up wrong.

  • bySteven Hamilton andRyan Edwards
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Capitals will need millions of homes for 5 million new residents

Capitals will need millions of homes for 5 million new residents

Sydney and Melbourne alone will need to build at least another 1.3 million homes to accommodate an extra 3 million residents over the next 18 years,a new report finds.

  • byShane Wright
Population surge could keep rates higher for longer,leading economist warns

Population surge could keep rates higher for longer,leading economist warns

Australia’s population swelled by 563,000 in 12 months. Those extra people are putting pressure on inflation and could force interest rates to stay high.

  • byShane Wright
Country road,city blues:Northern locals hemmed in by ‘lack of basic traffic planning’

Country road,city blues:Northern locals hemmed in by ‘lack of basic traffic planning’

The rural road that runs through the heart of a rapidly growing council in Melbourne’s north is already overwhelmed.

  • byAdam Carey
Byron housing plan to triple size of coastal village

Byron housing plan to triple size of coastal village

The state government told Byron Shire to come up with 4500 homes to ease the region’s housing crisis. Now,the council says it has found a way to do it.

  • byCatherine Naylor
Surging population growth ‘threatens Brisbane’s cultural identity’

Surging population growth ‘threatens Brisbane’s cultural identity’

As interstate migrants continue to surge into SEQ,a new report says there’s a danger they could damage the very thing they’re flooding in for – our lifestyle and quality of life.

  • byCloe Read