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Back in June 2016, Mike Moynihan and Bob Birrell from the Australian Population Research Institute (APRI) released a showing that the number of doctors has easily out-paced growth in the population, driven largely by a conga-line of overseas trained doctors (OTDs) that enter Australia to work in a regional area only to then move to already-oversupplied cities once their mandatory term is up.
According to this research, the number of doctors in Australia surged by 47% in the decade to 2014-15, around 2.5 times the 19% growth in the overall population, driven overwhelmingly by OTDs:
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.