Future Brisbane: Bernard Salt on what’s ahead for our booming city
BRISBANE is on the brink of becoming a major international centre underpinned by booming population growth. So, what does this mean for our once “big country town”?
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BRISBANE is on the brink of becoming a major international centre underpinned by booming population growth and a “network of cities’’ unrivalled by any other capital.
Leading demographer and social researcher Bernard Salt’s exclusive research for The Courier-Mail’s Future Brisbane campaign says Queensland’s capital over the next decade will join Sydney and Melbourne as Australia’s global cities.
With that will come huge advantages for the city’s residents but it will also bring challenges that the city will need to be overcome to cater for such expansion.
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