You can't boost Australia's north to 5 million people without a proper plan
- Written by Julian Bolleter, Deputy Director, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, University of Western Australia
Could Darwin one day be home to more than a million people?Geoff Whalan/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND
Any moves to greatly increase the population of northern Australian by 2060 could have a devastating impact on the local environment without long-term careful planning by all tiers of government.
That’s the finding of research that looked at several...
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