Balanced News: ‘Brain drain’ as NSW loses 100,000 people to other Australian states

The Labor opposition has seized upon data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to argue that the current government is not doing enough to improve living and working conditions in NSW. In the year to September 2022, NSW lost over 100,000 people to other Australian states, with an exodus of more than 120,000 in total. The cost-of-living and housing affordability pressures that are biting hardest in Sydney are believed to be a major contributing factor to the high rate of migration. The Labor opposition has pledged to improve conditions for essential workers in NSW if they are elected next week, but has not said that this would be enough to reverse the trend of people moving away from the state.