Ask any big-city dweller and topping the list of concerns (if they are employed) are paralysing traffic congestion, out-of-reach housing prices leading to commensurately high rental prices, and crime rates. Housing unaffordability and congestion in Australia’s capital cities continue unabated but a fair-dinkum government policy of decentralisation could arrest these problems by encouraging population growth outside the capitals. The problem is threefold. Large-scale immigration, ranging …
