Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs He said he first came to Queensland and Brisbane as a student.“Brisbane is just awesome. I’d visited Gold Coast and Australia before I moved here, so I knew studying at UQ and living here would be great,” he said.“After graduating, I started working, playing with a rugby club here, and you just find it is a great place to live.”He has chosen Brisbane over Sydney and Melbourne after travelling around Australia.“Sydney and Melbourne are nice places to visit down south, but I wouldn’t want to live there,” he said after the ceremony.Brisbane City Hall was packed out on Saturday as a big increase in Kiwis and Indians led to a six=fold increase in new Australians settling in Brisbane.“Also, my wife’s family is living in Gladstone now too, so it is harder to leave to go back to New Zealand. This is home for me and my family.”The bumper ceremonies follow the highly successful super citizenship ceremonies in 2022 which saw more than 4300 new citizens in three days in Brisbane.Home countries of Brisbane people switching to become Australian citizensNew Zealand 1,846India 1,167United Kingdom 758China 351Vietnam 328South Africa 327Philippines 314Iran 216Taiwan 206Brazil 183Source: Brisbane City Council. Since July 2023 legislation fast-tracking citizenship for New Zealanders.Schrinner said the decision to become an Australian citizen was now an incentive for many Kiwis.“Most New Zealanders already have the flexibility to live, work and travel Australia without visas, and this shows today’s citizens really want Australia to be their forever home,” he said.Loading“This is the final step in their journey to becoming an Australian and the atmosphere at our citizenship ceremonies is always one filled with excitement and anticipation.The 2021 Census showed Greater Brisbane’s population had grown by 22.8 per cent since 2011, up by almost 500,000 people from 2,065,996 to 2,526,238.Greater Brisbane’s growth outstripped Sydney (19.11 per cent), Hobart (17.01 per cent) Darwin (16.02 per cent) and Adelaide (13.27 per cent), and was almost on par with Melbourne (22.94 per cent) and Perth (22.43 per cent).The 2021 census data showed Pallara, south of Inala with a growth rate of 16 per cent was one of Brisbane’s boom suburbs.
