00:00 The South East Mayor's swarming on state parliament looking for more money to manage population
00:07 growth.
00:07 And we need support with infrastructure, with our transport.
00:11 We are having a lot of growth here in South East Queensland, we're having a lot of growth
00:15 in Ipswich.
00:16 The Premier says one factor contributing to growth is interstate and overseas migration.
00:21 As a commuter myself I know that traffic's been getting worse.
00:25 And doubling down on his calls for the Federal Government to moderate international migration
00:30 levels.
00:31 Congestion has been getting worse and that's one of the reasons why we're urging the Australian
00:37 Government to give us some time for the infrastructure to catch up.
00:41 This is really cheap politics from the Premier. It's time for them to actually do their job,
00:45 stump up and fund essential services rather than trying to find a bad guy to blame.
00:50 The Government pointing to modelling that says since 2019 there's been a significant increase
00:55 in trips on Queensland's roads, public transport and active networks by net overseas and interstate
01:01 migration. So how do they know it's because of migrants?
01:05 So this is total trips taken during the time that we've seen that migration surge. An increase
01:11 in total trips of 229,000.
01:13 I am not as convinced of those figures as if we had done some of these studies in different
01:20 ways.
01:21 Mr Miles wants to slow the migration rate but says it's not about migrants.
01:25 They are very, very welcome here and I don't blame them for wanting to move here. This
01:29 is simply about saying that the population is growing at a rate faster than we can build
01:35 houses and deliver the infrastructure that we need.
01:38 Multicultural Australia's CEO agrees there are pressures.
01:42 But we are concerned about the way in which the conversation is being framed.
01:47 Brisbane Lord Mayor says there's no single silver bullet.
01:51 We need to slow down the migration rate for a period of time until we can catch our breath.
01:56 We need more investment in public transport across the region and we need to really encourage
02:00 investment in infrastructure as well.
02:02 Late today the Government announced an additional $100 million in funding for the South East
02:07 Councils.
02:07 It should be a guarantee.
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