Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says the government is ready to work with “states and territories” to focus on migration and population problems across the country as regional areas are suffering from a population decline.
“We see sometimes quite fast populations in our city but real issues around population decline in regions and the bush,” Ms O’Neil said during a press conference on Thursday.
“This is something that sort of exercises the government because when you think about something like aged care, those needs are just not in the city – we actually need to have some distribution of workers. “Trying to drive population through the migration season … this is something Australian governments have been trying to do for many many decades, and it’s tended not to be very successful.
“The reason it hasn’t been successful is because it hasn’t been a collaboration between states and territories.”
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