Australia’s population clock will tick over to 25 million today — more than 20 years ahead of schedule if we believed official government projections from 2002.
But why is reaching this milestone ‘early’ causing public angst? It has certainly triggered some lively debates about the level of immigration, which accounted for 62 per cent of population growth last year.
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