Population Growth in Australia

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Population Growth in Australia
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Introduction
The population growth has become one of the biggest problems in several countries of
the world. It has been considered as a very problematic matter for the individual administrations
of the country to be aware of it for certain reasons. The Federal Government of Australia has
been very much concerned about the growth of the population in several cities like Melbourne
and Sydney (Krockenberger 2015). Certain measures should be taken in the consideration to
prevent such rampant rates of population growth in these countries. The information shared by
the Australian Bureau of Statistics is quite overwhelming and the government is quite worried
about this matter. The future implications of such population growth can be so much serious
indeed. The primary matter of concern is the fact that the Government will have to provide all
the facilities to the people but the economic status is not increasing as per the population growth.
The statistics say that the total population of Australia has almost reached at a number of 25
million. The Citizenship Minister has expressed his grave concern about this fact indeed.
The growth of Australian population
There are several reasons for the population growth in Australia. These reasons will have
to be taken into the proper consideration for the betterment of the situation. The impacts of such
rate of population growth can be immense as well (Krockenberger 2015). The growth of the
population and the impacts on the environment are quite closely related. The experts have
debated over this factor in many ways indeed. The role of immigration is huge in the growth of
population in Australia (Coale and Hoover 2015).
In the year 2009, it had been observed that the overall population of Australia had grown
about 2% and the main reason for this development was the migration of people from several

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countries. Thus it can be assumed that migration had indeed played a huge role in the population
growth of the country. The Net Overseas Migration has really been an important factor for
judging the growth of population in Australia in several ways (Hartwell 2017). Several people
are coming and shifting to Australia in the recent time for various reasons like setting up
businesses, educational facilities and many more. The kinds of immigrants who are arriving to
Australia are the overseas students, citizens from New Zealand, the residents of Australian
parliament or the people who are coming back to Australia after a long absence from the country
(Coale and Hoover 2015).
The Net Overseas Migration has revealed the fact that the most number of migrants are
the ones who are entering Australia for long-term visas particularly the overseas students and the
temporary skilled migrants (Hartwell 2017). It has to be remembered that the permanent
migration is not subject to planning levels set up by the Federal Government of Australia.
Besides that the Australian Government does not have the proper control over the citizens of
Australia and the permanent citizens who might be leaving or returning to Australia. The
implementation of the Migration Program should be strictly maintained in the country properly
as well (Thompson and Maginn 2012).
Present condition of the population growth
Some critics have also said that the population growth in Australia can be considered as
the highest growing indeed. However, the Citizenship Minister of Australia has said that this is
becoming a huge problem for the Australia on the long run. Particularly, the problem has been
rising in Sydney and Melbourne (Thompson and Maginn 2012). The political debates have been
rising in the recent times as well. This is why some of the politicians are urging the people to