People flood northern NSW as water dries up

Earlier this year, the Mayor of Armidale Regional Council and his cronies celebrated as population growth into the Northern Tablelands surged by 4.3% over two years:

Welcomed at both a local and state government levels… the increase of 1987 residents pushed the overall population past the 80,000 mark for the first time, to an estimated population of 81,220…

Armidale Regional Council Mayor Simon Murray thought the city was heading in a good direction. An increase of 1258 people since the Census, made Armidale one of the fastest growing local government areas (LGA) in regional NSW.

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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.