In this special series, The Age focuses on Melbourne’s western suburbs to see how life could improve in Australia’s fastest-growing region. See all 32 stories .

There’s a lot of hype about Brisbane at the moment. And why shouldn’t there be?

It’s Australia’s fastest growing city. It is hosting the Olympics in seven years, and it’s building a new stadium at Victoria Park in preparation. An estimated 274,000 new jobs have been created there since 2020. Queensland government projections show the city nudging 4 million people in 20 years. The economic momentum is, according to Deloitte Access Economics, almost unrivalled on a global scale.

It’s an extraordinary story, whichever way you look at it.

There’s another, similarly extraordinary story of growth happening in Melbourne right now

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