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Traffic converges at Kangaroo Point, near the Story Bridge and roads in three directions.

Draft SEQ transport plan flags need to be ‘creative’ to avoid gridlock

The document says governments will need to make better use of existing services due to a lack of funding, land, and goodwill for new infrastructure.

  • Sean Parnell

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Brisbane remains a popular city for people to go to university, enter the workforce and raise families.

Brisbane set for population shift not seen in Queensland since the 1970s

The federal government expects more people to be living in Greater Brisbane than the rest of Queensland within months.

  • Sean Parnell
Job projections for Sydney.

The Sydney suburbs running low on workers

The number of people with a job is set to shrink in scores of Sydney neighbourhoods over the next 25 years.

  • Matt Wade and Nigel Gladstone
Sydney’s popularity with immigrants keeps its population large.

Why Sydney will keep its place as Australia’s biggest city

Predictions that Melbourne’s population would soon overtake Sydney’s were premature.

  • Matt Wade
Every weekend, parents of unmarried adults come to the marriage market in Shanghai in hope of finding a good match for their children.

Inside Shanghai’s marriage market - where parents seek a match for their unwed child

Marriage rates are declining across China. But at a pop-up market in Shanghai, parents sit for hours every weekend, advertising their single children’s key attributes.

  • Lisa Visentin
Australia’s fertility rate needs to be about 1.2 children per woman to keep the country’s population from sliding backwards according to the Centre for Population.

Should we really go forth and multiply?

A drop in migration and a global slide in birth rates won’t stop Australia’s population growth. That will come with its challenges.

  • Millie Muroi
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China’s population shrank for a third consecutive year in 2024, even as the country saw a modest increase in births

Even a baby boom can’t stop China’s population shrinking

China’s population decline has become a major source of anxiety for policymakers as the country grapples with the economic consequences of a rapidly ageing society.

  • Lisa Visentin
Mambourin is a growing suburb on Melbourne’s western fringe.

Melbourne’s west is a growing force, and politicians should beware

The western suburbs are changing and growing. Whoever can meet the region’s needs and expectations of services and infrastructure is likely to reap huge rewards.

  • The Age's View
From left: Anushka Bharath, Bharath Chellaya, Gisha Bharath and Akansha Bharath outside their Manor Lakes home. They plan to move to Mambourin.

It was once declared ‘unpopular for living’. Now it’s Australia’s fastest-growing region

The Age explores what’s driving the boom in Melbourne’s western suburbs, and challenges some of the common assumptions about the area.

  • Sophie Aubrey, Adam Carey and Patrick Hatch
The nation is expected to add 4.1m residents over the next decade, according to new forecasts.

More migrants, fewer babies as population heads for 31.3 million

Australia is expected to be home to an extra 4.1 million people by the middle of the next decade, despite falling fertility and an increase in deaths.

  • Shane Wright

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