{"id":462120,"date":"2026-02-06T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:59:10","slug":"the-regions-should-fear-big-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462120\/","title":{"rendered":"The regions should fear Big Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regional Australia should be alarmed by the latest long-term projections from the Centre for Population, which risk tilting the nation\u2019s power balance further in the cities\u2019 favour.<\/p>\n<p>To recap, the Centre for Population\u2019s 2025 Population Statement projects that the nation\u2019s population will grow by 3,860,000 over the 11 years to 2035\u201336, with most (80%) of this growth to occur in the capital cities, which are projected to grow by 3,080,000.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Australian-population-projection-1.png\" width=\"535\" height=\"146\" alt=\"Australian population forecasts\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s population is also projected to grow by 13.4 million people (nearly 50%) by 2065-66. To put this level of growth into perspective, it is equivalent to adding another Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth to the nation\u2019s current population.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regional Australia should be alarmed by the latest long-term projections from the Centre for Population, which risk tilting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-462120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}