There is such an accommodation shortage in Hobart that the University of Tasmania has bought a hotel to put up students. Yesterday the Bureau of Statistics explained why, reporting the state’s population growth rate tripled between 2015-2017 to 0.9 per cent, a figure the city has not seen for a decade.
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