{
  "id": 3633319,
  "title": "Who voted for a Melbourne of 10 million people?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/who-voted-for-a-melbourne-of-10-million-people",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-27T01:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/08/who-voted-for-a-melbourne-of-10-million-people/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "It took Melbourne 170 years to grow to a population of 3.7 million in 2005. In 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its Population Projections 2002 to 2101, which included a baseline (Series B) forecast of Australia’s population reaching 26.4 million by 2051, based on an assumed net overseas migration (NOM) of 100,000 The post Who voted for a Melbourne of 10 million people?…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}