{"id":130695,"date":"2024-09-20T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=130695"},"modified":"2024-09-20T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T07:38:42","slug":"victorias-population-surpasses-7-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=130695","title":{"rendered":"Victoria&#8217;s population surpasses 7 Million people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the first time, there are more than seven million Victorians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggests that the state\u2019s population has surpassed the milestone number, recording an annual 2.7 per cent growth rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The population sat just shy at 6.959 million in March, with demographer\u2019s projecting it passed seven million in early July. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overseas migration is the biggest contributor to recent growth according to the quarterly ABS data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now why are we hell bent on lambasting government projects that provide metro rail services, namely the Suburban Rail Loop, when we are now over 7 million people and accelerating toward 8?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, there are more than seven million Victorians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":130696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[993,13487,8],"class_list":["post-130695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-melbourne","tag-population","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130697,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130695\/revisions\/130697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}