LESSON 15.4 Why do people migrate within countries?
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this lesson you should be able to: • explain why people within Australia and China internally migrate • describe the concept of internal displacement.
Tune in Australians move from place to place within Australia for a number of reasons; some of these are illustrated in FIGURE1 .
FIGURE1 Australia’s moving population
Darwin
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250 500 km
TOP END TERRITORY
Cairns Port Douglas
NORTHWEST TERRITORY
FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND
Broome
Townsville
CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN TERRITORY
Gorgon Pluto
FIFO
Moranbah
Mackay
Karratha
Newman
Sea change
Tom Price
Emerald
Alice Springs
FIFO
Moomba
Roma
Prominent Hill
Brisbane
FIFO
NULLARBOR PLAIN
Byron Bay
Roxby Downs
Coonamble
Port Macquarie
Jamestown
Perth
Tree change
Adelaide
Sydney
Canberra
Albany
Dimboola
Sea change
Sea change
Melbourne
Burnie
Davenport
Launceston
Movement of people
19th-century migration
Hobart
21st-century movement
Fly-in, fly-out
FIFO
Great Australian Divide 2011 — 3 million people live to the west of the Great Australian Divide; 19 million people live to the east 2051 — 4 million people will live to the west of the Great Australian Divide; 31 million people will live to the east
Source: Map drawn by MAPgraphics
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