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'We haven't built it, and they've come': the e-change pressures on Australia's lifestyle towns

  • Written by Julian Waters-Lynch, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organisational Design, RMIT University
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Michael and Karen moved from Melbourne to Castlemaine, about 130km northwest of Victoria’s capital, in mid-2020 – using, like tens of thousands of Australians, the shift to remote work to make a larger lifestyle change.

They sold the small two-room inner-urban apartment they had bought in 2018 and bought a large...

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