Humanities Alive 8 VC 3E

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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