Pro tip: Don’t ever bad mouth Peter V’landys in front of people who are both rugby league and horse racing fans…it does not go down well!
Should also be noted that Mr Barilaro is the leader of the NATIONALS in NSW. I’m pretty damn sure part of the Nationals manifesto is looking after the regional areas of NSW, not poaching events from Melbourne to go to Sydney.
#IWorkForNSW #SuperBarilaroBruz
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Oh I have found this out before - it amazes me the way people (and a few media outlets) deify him.
Never stopped the Nats doing stuff like that before, won’t stop them anytime soon I suspect.
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Probably the only time that I’d agree with Jeff Kennett.
Sydney’s population swelled beyond 5.3 million before the coronavirus pandemic as migrants flocked to the inner city at record rates, but its claim to the title as the nation’s most populous capital is to be challenged by Melbourne by the middle of the decade.
I would expect both Melbourne and Sydney populations to stall through the second half of 2020 and well into 2021/22.
Might be a good thing. It allows a lot of infostructure projects to catch up with both cities experiencing massive growth in recent years.
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I still hope that after the pandemic is over, we’ll look at diversifying the spread of our population (with both newcomers and existing residents) to our smaller capital cities and regional centres.
While I won’t quite go as far as saying that Sydney & Melbourne need a population decrease (even though the population of both is about double what is realistically sustainable), I do think our two largest metropolitan areas would benefit from a few years of stalled growth.
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Sydney and Melbourne can get much bigger easily, we just need to work on getting our frankly outrageous per capita resource use under control.
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True but Melbourne is under stress now. There is too much population around heavy demand areas including the city and close suburbs, there needs to be spread of the population towards other areas.
Barry Humphries has abandoned Melbourne for Adelaide.
https://twitter.com/MatthewPantelis/status/1311851488809943041?s=19
He told David Penberthy in The Australian:
From:
https://twitter.com/RodS108443078/status/1311633148606779392?s=19
I’ve developed a fascination with Adelaide and have this urge to visit that city more than any other in Australia.
Two school friends ended up settling in Adelaide. One works in IT for a utilities company and the other works in indigenous health. Both highly intelligent guys still with strong ties to the area in NSW in which they grew up. Both have told me they wouldn’t live anywhere else because of the quality of life they have and rave about the benefits of living in SA.
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I recommend going. It has a lot going for it.
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How will Melbourne ever recover?
Or the residents of Moonee Ponds
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The only problem with Adelaide is that it’s too hot in summer, though that can be fixed by living around Victor Harbor. It’s the one capital I haven’t properly visited; I was going to go this year until COVID struck. Would rather visit in autumn as the weather is pretty perfect then.
I too wouldn’t mind visiting Adelaide sometime down the track. Touring around via Street View, it looks like a very nice city that it’s big enough without being too big, as well as being reasonably close to most other capital cities.
I agree with @dxnerd that it gets too hot in summer, although at least it’s dry heat unlike in Sydney. 
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It’s nice visiting somewhere where the broadcast bands are relatively uncrowded.
Yes- DXer Jamie does well from Adelaide. He’s even had NZ via double hop on a couple of occasions, and tropo to Bunbury.
The Nullarbor would be even better for DXing though. No FM stations at all in Eucla or Nullarbor Roadhouse.
Adelaide gets very very hot but it’s dry heat and it’s not continuous summer like you get in Brisbane for example. There are still some cool spells during summer to break it up and it doesn’t drag on for months and months.
I lived in Adelaide for 6 months or so working on a project and it does have a lot to offer in terms of ease of lifestyle. It has all the metropolitan comforts and amenities without most of the hassles.
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