Land use change in Brunswick

Our cities are always evolving. They expand and change internally, the old makes way for the new, populations grow and change. This blog looks at an area in Brunswick, an inner suburb of Melbourne, to determine how land use has changed over the last 100 years. This has been done using the Sands and McDougall directories, as well as personal observation. 

Australian migrants - just who are they?

There's no disputing that the ABS releases a lot of demographic data.  The quarterly publication, Australian Demographic Statistics, provides regular headline numbers.  These are the ones found splashed across the front page of newspapers and fuelling debate about an appropriate level of population growth in Australia.  But it's the annual releases of data which provide more detailed insights into how the population is growing and changing.  Last week the ABS released Migration Australia (Cat. no. 3412.0).  Given that migration is the topic de jour, it's worth looking at what this data tells us.