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Regional Shake up to Accommodate Population Boom

Regional Shake up to Accommodate Population Boom
Builders work on a new house in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 8, 2006. William West/AFP via Getty Images
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2/28/2025|Updated: 2/28/2025

The population of regional Australia will boom in the coming decades as the boundaries of major centres are redrawn in a bid to ease the housing crisis.

The Plan for Victoria blueprint reveals the outskirts of Geelong, Ballarat, and Bendigo will be among the first to be developed, with an additional 200,000 homes to be built over the next 30 years.
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