Australia has some of the same issues, with vast areas of uninhabitable space. Here it is the heat and there it is the cold. So for two very huge countries, they both have a large percentage of their land area that are uninhabitable or not appealing for people. Australia is keen to bring in more immigrants and has sought to channel them out of major urban centres and into some of the regional centres. Here in Adelaide, one of the largest groups of new immigrants are from the Sudan. Personally I think that Australia could use more people. The challenge is where to put them where there are jobs, affordable housing and support infrastructure.
The challenge you mention is the whole point. In Oz, it's not reasonable to expect that, despite incentives, people will stay in Oodnadatta or Albury. Of course they're going to come to the big smoke and place the infrastructure under even greater strain.
Australia has some of the same issues, with vast areas of uninhabitable space. Here it is the heat and there it is the cold. So for two very huge countries, they both have a large percentage of their land area that are uninhabitable or not appealing for people. Australia is keen to bring in more immigrants and has sought to channel them out of major urban centres and into some of the regional centres. Here in Adelaide, one of the largest groups of new immigrants are from the Sudan. Personally I think that Australia could use more people. The challenge is where to put them where there are jobs, affordable housing and support infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteThe challenge you mention is the whole point. In Oz, it's not reasonable to expect that, despite incentives, people will stay in Oodnadatta or Albury. Of course they're going to come to the big smoke and place the infrastructure under even greater strain.
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