DAFENG, China — When asked why she and her husband don’t want a second child, Shi Xiaomei smiles at her pudgy 9-year-old son and does a quick tally of the family budget. Her salary as a cleaning lady and the income from a mahjong parlor in their spare room barely cover their son’s school fees
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SMH Garry Egger – Baby boomers practised scorched earth gluttony, and now the rest must pay the price, writes Garry Egger Article Link:
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We should start out by making it clear that we have no issue with anyone that prefers living in a high-density area or with the free market construction of buildings to fulfill this preference. The issue we have is with the enforced imposition of high density housing upon the bulk of Australians that don’t want
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On World Population Day, 11 July, the National President of Sustainable Population Australia, said the Australian Government’s announced target of a 5 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 would be ‘useless’ by 2020 because of Australia’s continuing population growth. Ms Kanck said it seemed to be beyond the intellect of both Government and Greens MPs to understand that more
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… STILL HURTLING TOWARDS A BIG AUSTRALIA The results of the Government’s consultation on a population strategy for Australia show that the process was only ever for show, SPA President, Sandra Kanck, said on 13 May following the strategy’s release by Minister Tony Burke. Ms Kanck said the outcome is what Mr Burke started off saying,
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The UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has chosen 31 October as the day on which it estimates world population will reach 7 billion – just over 12 years since the Day of Six Billion, on 12 October 1999. UNFPA is planning a series of events publicise the milestone, including a social media campaign starting on
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British Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined his Government’s plans to return UK immigration levels to “where they were in the 1980s and 90s”. In a keynote speech to Conservative Party members on 14 April, Mr Cameron said annual immigration would be reduced from “hundreds of thousands every year” to “the order of tens of
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