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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

Nah, as a Bendigonian, this is fucked up erasure and a NSW psyops misinformation campaign.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 minute ago

Ok I reverse image searched it, and apparently it's at least 7 years old. Since Bendigo was at 103,000 in 2021, I'm guessing it just missed out on the cutoff in 2018.

Tagging @BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Wollongong, Newcastle and Geelong are cities, but not Bendigo?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think "nearest city" is the best description.

It looks like, ABS identifies every urban area with at least 10,000 people, and then tags it with "the most relevant" centre in the region, or something like that.

So it's something like, the way in which ABS divides localities into statistically useful segments.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm not sure I take your meaning. As best I can tell, it's simply a Varonoi diagram centred on Australia's cities of over 100k. The only complicated bit is how they chose the exact centre point of each city, especially Sunshine Coast and Central Coast. How the lines are drawn doesn't seem to be based on any statistical data beyond that.

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Lets make these all the new states. Abolish the 6 states (and 2 territories) we have and replace them with these.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

People often ask why house prices are so high when we have so much space?

Then you realise how insanely clustered our population is with something like the visual representation here.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

To someone who doesn't know where the population clusters are, this map isn't a good visual representation.

Also, clustered populations isn't really the reason for our house prices being what they are.