{"id":27626,"date":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/steven-marshall-says-we-need-to-significantly-increase-our-population\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","slug":"steven-marshall-says-we-need-to-significantly-increase-our-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/steven-marshall-says-we-need-to-significantly-increase-our-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Marshall Says We Need To \u201cSignificantly Increase\u201d Our Population"},"content":{"rendered":"

SA\u2019s population needs to grow \u201csignificantly\u201d if the state is to retain its current proportion of the national population, says Premier Steven Marshall.<\/h3>\n

\u201cAll I\u2019m saying is let\u2019s not get further behind proportionally,\u201d Mr Marshall told FIVEAA on Thursday. \u201cLet\u2019s stick where we are — about 7 per cent of the Australian population.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo stick at that point we are going to have to quite significantly increase our uptake or our growth in the population. Three ways to do it: keeping young South Australians here, more international students, and targeted international migration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people that we are interested in are people that are going to have jobs here from day one\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a tough debate. This is one of those dog whistle-type debates where people can very easily spin this out of control.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be very useful if Peter Malinauskas and the Labor party came out and repeated what they say at business lunches when they do support targeted migration to South Australia, so it doesn\u2019t become Labor vs. Liberal\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mr Marshall paid tribute to immigrants like Vili Milisits and Hieu Van Le who arrived after WWII and \u201cshaped\u201d South Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing to fear here,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we see is an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course we\u2019ve got to manager it. We\u2019ve got to do it sensibly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to avoid the problems that they\u2019ve had in Melbourne or Sydney or Brisbane around overcrowding, but you should not fear greater migration to South Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the fundamentals to our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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