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Isabella Corbett

Melbourne Has Overtaken Sydney As Australia’s Biggest City And [Insert Weird Rivalry Joke Here]

In what I can only imagine is devastating news to, like, three little freaks from Sydney, Melbourne has officially overtaken the New South Wales capital as Australia’s most populous city. Stop the press, start the car et cetera. Melbourne was able to knock Sydney off its high horse thanks to a boundary change, as the city limits were expanded to include the area of Melton. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed the new and improved Melbourne’s population was 4,875,400 back in June 2021 — 18,700 more than Sydney. Congratulations, I guess? I don’t get the hype because I have lived in Perth my entire life, thus the only way this fair city would become Australia’s largest is if a devastating plague broke out in Sydney, Melbourne and
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