population growth

It is hard to go anywhere without hearing about Australia’s rental crisis. And for good reason, with rents soaring at record double-digit rates across much of Australia on the back of record tight rental vacancies.Australia’s rental market…

Melbourne may have suffered a significant pandemic-prompted mass exodus, but new figures show it will become Australia’s largest city within a decade. New data from the Australian government’s centre for population shows Melbourne’s…

Ahead of the Reserve Bank‘s latest announcement on interest rates, there are warnings that renters and first-home buyers are set for a difficult holiday period. The Reserve Bank (RBA) is poised to hike the cash rate for the eighth month in…

As of November 15, the world's population has exceeded 8 billion people — a growth of another billion in just over a decade. "The growth of the world population is a remarkable success story," said Sara Hertog, a population expert with the…

The Albanese Government‘s first budget is a movable feast so full of provisos and asterisks that it should prove accurate no matter what happens.What this obscures is the key role irresponsible policy has played in the falling living…

The words came as a bit of a shock. I listened to the pretty young lady in the resplendent green top and dot print scarf tell her story to Karla Grant, host of Insight’s special episode ‘Indigenous identity’, airing on SBS on…