THE Anglican Church wants Australians to have fewer children and has urged the federal government to scrap the baby bonus and cut immigration. Wading into the population debate, the General Synod of the Anglican Church has warned that current rates of population growth are unsustainable and potentially out of step with church doctrine – including
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The problem with public transport, we’re often told, is the shape of our cities: Australian sprawl is impossible to service effectively with trains and trams and buses. So we end up reliant on the car and stuck in traffic. If only Australia’s capitals were more compact, more closely settled, more, I don’t know, European! Then
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Letter to The Age 18th May 2010 by Vivienne Ortega. Article Link:
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Swathes of land in the Sydney Basin could be set aside for farming and market gardens under a proposal the state government is considering to stem the loss of agriculture in outlying suburbs. Article Link: http://smh.domain.com.au/real-estate-news/call-to-set-aside-suburban-land-for-growing-of-food-20100516-v6fc.html
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mmigration Minister Chris Evans has slashed by half the list of 400 occupations given an easy ride into Australia in the independent skilled migration program, replacing them with 180 ”highly valued occupations”. Article Link: http://www.theage.com.au/national/canberra-slashes-occupations-on-migration-list-20100516-v6dz.html
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Population growth will slow markedly in the coming two years, helping to ease upward pressure on interest rates and rental accommodation, the forecasting group BIS Shrapnel says. This report is not publicly available, BIS Shrapnel sell it for $4,620, see: http://www.bis.com.au/reports/bia_r.html So there is no way we can see what assumptions were made and the
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By 2050, the world will host nine billion people—and that’s if population growth slows in much of the developing world. Today, at least one billion people are chronically malnourished or starving. Simply to maintain that sad state of affairs would require the clearing (read: deforestation) of 900 million additional hectares of land, according to Pedro
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We have here an example both of the damage done in the service of unnecessary population growth and the failure to offset some of that damage by retaining a superb working food production area which also puts water to excellent re-use. Yet we are still subjected to harangues by suprisingly well-publicised so-called ‘green’ activists who
THE home ownership dreams of young Moreland residents are “fading away”, driven in part by the nation’s “runaway” population growth, Wills federal Labor MP Kelvin Thomson has warned. Article Link: http://moreland-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/are-moreland-property-prices-crazy/
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Employment growth has picked up but is only just keeping pace with population growth, leaving the jobless rate in limbo. Article Link: http://www.tradingroom.com.au/apps/view_breaking_news_article.ac
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