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Thank you, Ian Fraser, for your considered letter about Eastern Grey kangaroos and the regional grasslands and woodlands which are their traditional, and our new, habitat (CT 8 July). As you write, the notion of clear-felling the Cairns rainforests is ‘inconceivable’ (though the Atherton rainforests were not spared), but allowing run-away populations of kangaroos to

It was with dismay that I picked up my “Independent” last week to see on the front page that South Australia must “populate or perish”. Proponents of population increase generally have a vested interest and of course those associated with the building industry would clearly come into that category. The world is overpopulated. Australia is

Successive Australian population inquiries – some independent, some commissioned by government – have all recommended the adoption of an Australian population policy. Successive Australian governments have all rejected those recommendations. The Keating Government took the unusual step of refusing to respond to the tabled report of the 1994 Jones Inquiry into Australia’s population “carrying capacity”.

  Dr Ted Trainer is an academic in the Department of Social Work, Social Policy and Sociology,University of New South Wales and the author of numerous books on the environment and population issues. January 2000 © On Line Opinion   The following paragraphs briefly summarise the fundamentally important limits to growth analysis of the global situation. In my

Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences Australian Museum 6 College St, Sydney, 2010 NATURE IS COMMANDED BY OBEYING HER – FRANCIS BACON Abstract Despite the fact that ecosystems underwrite human existence, we are now changing and degrading them at local and global scales; neither Earth nor Australia is ecologically sustainable. This situation is largely caused

IMMIGRATION – A BATTLEGROUND WITHIN THE AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRATS By Dr John Coulter Leader Australian Democrats 1991-3 Published in People and Place, Vol. 9, No. 3 – October 2001 Just as in the general community, a hard fought debate has been going on for many years within the Australian Democrats over a population/immigration policy for Australia. While

National Director of Sustainable Population Australia 17 January 2002 © The Sydney Morning Herald Immigration must fall within the bounds of ecological sustainability if Australia is not to become a wasteland, writes Jenny Goldie. As more and more asylum seekers press on our shores, we need to know how many people this country can sustain. Social

© Australian Geographic Oct – Dec 2003 This old, dry continent simply can’t cope with any more people. AUSTRALIA’S POPULATION grows by a quarter of a million annually and is about 20 million. By mid-century we’ll hit 25 million. I believe our current population is unsustainable, putting unacceptable strains on our fragile resources. We desperately

4 November 2003 © The Sydney Morning Herald There has been a barrage of propaganda in favour of Australia aiming for a higher population figure than that which demographic trends suggest will be the case. Will there be 25 or 30 million Australians in 2030? Should we aim for 40 million by 2050? If so,

National Director of Sustainable Population Australia 13 November 2003 © Canberra Times WHAT must we do to achieve a sustainable society? About 200 people will gather in Canberra tomorrow to address this question. A conference at the Shine Dome will draw together the threads of the Internet “In Search Of Sustainability” conference that has run