{
  "id": 4541150,
  "title": "Mega-Melbourne is a parasite on Australia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/mega-melbourne-is-a-parasite-on-australia",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-31T01:00:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/08/mega-melbourne-is-a-parasite-on-australia/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I reported last week on The Age newspaper’s interactive tool showing what Melbourne will look like when its population soars beyond 10 million. The modelling suggests that six activity centres will be denser than anything that exists in Melbourne today: The number of dwellings across the top 15 centres is projected to massively increase under each The post Mega-Melbourne is a parasite on…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "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."
}