OPINION: Sending migrants to regional centres is not the answer

By Eugenie Joseph
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:38am, first published August 26 2018 - 7:00pm
FACTS: Many migrants will keep congregating in the big cities because that's where the jobs and education opportunities are.
FACTS: Many migrants will keep congregating in the big cities because that's where the jobs and education opportunities are.

The federal government’s plan to encourage more migrants to settle permanently in regional Australia – largely as a way to ease the population burden on Sydney and Melbourne – could prove to be misguided, ineffectual and create more problems than it solves.

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