Australia's new population milestone sure to reignite debate

Updated June 23 2017 - 11:13am, first published 11:08am
ABS stats will show Australia's population is grew by 1.5 per cent over the past year.  Photo: Philip Gostelow
ABS stats will show Australia's population is grew by 1.5 per cent over the past year. Photo: Philip Gostelow

With dog whistles busy in federal politics, either through proposed citizenship and immigration changes or amazingly blond "Australia First" advertising, never mind the overt One Nation xenophobia, it's an interesting time to be recording a population milestone.

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