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Booming Melbourne: "People are the new Gold Rush"

Two-thirds of the Melbourne's population growth has been from overseas migration.

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

Booming Melbourne is currently adding 327 people a day - and two out of three are overseas migrants. How is Australia's fastest growing city coping with this influx? To find out, we caught up with Sally Capp, the first woman to be directly elected as Lord Mayor of Melbourne.


Christian Froelicher Sally Capp Lord Mayor Melbourne
Christian Froelicher from SBS with Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp Source: SBS

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