For a long time Sydney had the looks while Melbourne had the personality, but the southern city can now also lay claim to being bigger than its rival
The Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS], which is put in charge of measuring the size of the countries’ towns and cities, announced a boundary change in the last census that has seen Melbourne’s population leapfrog Sydney by 18,700 to 4,875,40.
In a laneway in the court district of Melbourne’s CBD sits Patricia, a popular cafe, where the staff wear leather aprons and drip-pour coffee is served in whisky glasses.Manager Elly Bruin is quintessentially Melbourne. She’s carved a career in coffee, sports a mullet, wears a pair of black Crocs and lives in the trendy inner north.“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve very much been like who gives a fuck -For most of the last century, this indifference was not the norm.
From this the characters of the cities were formed - Sydney for finance and media, Melbourne for manufacturing and culture, and Canberra for the politics. “It’s complete projection,” Coughlan says. “It’s the opposite. Obviously, people will defend it when the conversation comes up, but we don’t bring the conversation up.”
In 2000 the then NSW premier, Bob Carr, declared Sydney was “full” as he argued to restrain its population. That sent a message internationally, Allen says.
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