The Weekend SMH ran an interesting article on how Western Sydney has borne the brunt of Sydney’s breakneck population growth, driven by mass immigration:
Greater Sydney’s population rose by 1.13 million between 2001 and 2018… Just five regions – Parramatta, the city and inner south, inner south-west, south-west and Blacktown – accounted for 55 per cent of that increase or 617,000 people…
The Parramatta district added 146,000 people between 2001 and 2018, more than any other region and eight times the Sutherland district’s increase, which was the smallest over that period…
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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.
