Crypto News: Australia's new biggest city

Sydney is no longer Australia's most populous city, losing its title because of a slight redrawing of a boundary. The city fell behind Melbourne by roughly 18,700 people in 2021 after the Australian Bureau of Statistics added a new district to the latter's "significant urban area" population measure. A more traditional metric still has Sydney ahead, but Melbourne is forecasted to overtake the harbor city even by that measure when the decade turns, Swati Pandey reports. Today on CityLab: Melbourne Becomes Australia's Biggest City After Boundary Tweak

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