Current Affairs: Australian population just hit 25 million.

It comes amid concerns population growth, which increased by 1.6 per cent last year, is putting pressure on infrastructure in some of Australia’s biggest cities.The Settlement Council of Australia says biding migrants to rural areas with visa restrictions is not the best way to ease population growth in Major cities. Ivan Leung and Kenneth Wong report.

5 million and counting: 65 percent of Melbourne's population growth is the result of overseas migration Source: Flickr