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Aussies rush to our region By Luke Voogt
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Australians on the move are driving population growth in Geelong and the Surf Coast as Melbourne experiences an overseas immigration boom. Fifty-four per cent of greater Geelong’s net population growth of 6195 people in the last financial year was from “internal migration”, according to latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data. Australians accounted for about 63 per
cent of Surf Coast Shire’s growth, the data showed. New arrivals favoured Melbourne over Geelong because it lacked an existing “critical mass” of immigrants, said prominent Australian demographer Bernard Salt. “(Regional cities) are not popular destinations for international migrants,” he said. Major cities had the largest concentration of expats whose lingual, religious, family and tribal connections attracted migrants, Mr Salt explained.
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“People tend to congregate into communities they feel comfortable.” Towns like Torquay were Anglo-dominated by “happenstance, not discrimination,” Mr Salt said. “British-Anglo people speaking to British-Anglo friends in Torquay might think, ‘That’s a nice place to live.’ Torquay is Anglo-dominated now but in 2030s it could be, for example, a hot spot for the Spanish community.” Continued page 2
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