By Peter Ridd – posted to On-Line Opinion, Thursday, 13 August 2009 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9283&page=0 Latest statistics show that Australia’s population is growing at a rate of more than a million every three years. This growth rate is being driven primarily by record rates of immigration and a relative young population, itself a product of rapid
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By Peter Ridd – posted to On-Line Opinion, Thursday, 13 August 2009 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9283&page=0 Latest statistics show that Australia’s population is growing at a rate of more than a million every three years. This growth rate is being driven primarily by record rates of immigration and a relative young population, itself a product of rapid past
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This description is from the Wikipedia article on An Essay on the Principle of Population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Population. The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798 through J. Johnson (London). The author was soon identified as The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. While it was not the first book on population,
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Maybe technology will come forward with new sources of energy and materials when the current ones run out. Let’s test that. Imagine that technology makes such incredible advances that we can settle all the other rocky planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus and Mars), convert them to earth-like ecosystems, and easily travel
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EVER had trouble explaining to somebody why Australia taking more immigrants can’t make any real difference to world poverty? In a dramatic presentation (Click here to see video) journalist Roy Beck uses jars of gumballs to show why. On stage he stacks up jars containing 3000 gumballs, representing the 3 billion people in the world who live on
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The NSW Branch recently held a public forum with Kelvin Thomson who outlined his concerns about our current population projections and offered his proposals for stabilising Australia’s population. Before the meeting Kelvin Thomson had been addressing the 2050 Popuulation Summit. The summit was too expensive for the branch to attend so a decision was taken
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I grew up in Broken Hill, which is dependent on the Darling River. I remember hearing stories of such widespread flooding of the river that the paddle-steamers on their way up to Bourke got lost because the captains were unable to determine where the main channel was. I spent 15 years in the South Australian
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From a member of SPA, posted to the SPA members Group Popforum, I’ve just been checking the latest edition of the the ABS Labour Force Statistics (March 2010). As you probably know the overall unemployment rate is 5.3%, but for young people aged 15-19 it’s 18.2%, up from 14.6% in March 2007. If this were
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Instead of focusing on scale, we should be looking to a far greater extent at the economies and diseconomies of growth rate. At issue is not a comparison of 2009 with 22 million people versus 2049 with 36 million. It is the comparison of 2009 with 2.1 per cent annual population growth with
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Noted in Australian Financial Revue in February was a series of letters that questioned the accuracy of the Australian Bureau of Statistics figures Unemployment and Underemployment. It was an interesting exchange of views that appears worthy of reproduction. AFR 8 February 2010 Political definition of unemployment David Lurie’s letter, “Underemployment must be addressed” (February 4),
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