Why has Melbourne Closed the Gap on Sydney Since 2000

摘要: Since 2000 Melbourne has grown faster than Sydney in population and employment. This is despite Sydney’s advantages having greater prominence as a global city, with stronger finance advanced producer services sectors, high visibility from hosting the Olympic Games. The paper examines number of hypotheses to why grew more such initial advantages. Depressed conditions for especially tourism, are basis an hypothesis. Higher housing land costs also hypothesised have reduced construction land-intensive activities manufacturing logistics, growth immigration, tourism international student intakes, relative Melbourne. Sub-hypotheses there were higher examined, together notion possible ‘bubble’. Lower state spending on inward investment Sydney, coupled less effective development administration complacency, incorporated into hypotheses. Differences between cities transport performance additionally considered causative factor. Finally, potential influence mooted complex planning system examined. uses ABS 4digit employment data price data, airline traffic trends, Productivity Commission reports newspaper reports, inter alia, test