For years I have lambasted the premiers of New South Wales and Victoria for sitting back idly while the federal government floods Sydney and Melbourne with migrants each and every year, thereby adding to already chronic strains on infrastructure and housing:
In the decade to September 2017, New South Wales and Victoria received a whopping 725,000 and 648,000 net overseas migrants respectively, with almost all of these settling in Sydney and Melbourne. And migrants are projected to continue inundating Sydney and Melbourne for decades to come, pushing their respective populations above 8 million people mid-century:
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