The population conundrum
Excerpts from the debate on the size of a future Singapore. Mar 05, 2010 Article Link:
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Carr wants migrant intake cut to curb growth – Mar 25, 2010
BOB CARR, the former Labor premier of NSW, says Australia’s immigration intake should be slashed by half to slow population growth. Article Link: http://www.smh.com.au/national/carr-wants-migrant-intake-cut-to-curb-growth-20100324-qwtv.html
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Whoa Canada – March 19, 2010
Canada did its best this week to act like George W. Bush. The government excluded family planning from a new maternal health initiative for developing countries it planned to launch at the G8 meeting in June. Like a minority in our country, their Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon claimed that access to contraception is irrelevant to
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Population growing at twice global average: ABS – March 26 2010
AUSTRALIA’S population is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the world, after crashing through 22 million late last year. Article Link:
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You can’t cap population, says swan 30 March 2010
Capping Australia’s population would come at a great cost to the nation, Treasurer Wayne Swan has warned. Addressing a conference in Brisbane this morning, Mr Swan said calls for a freeze on national population growth ignored the benefits that came from an increase in the number of people living in Australia. Article Link:
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What if we raise the plank – April 10
The decision by the NSW Labor government to discourage migrants a decade ago has proved to be a sign of what would happen if the whole nation did likewise Article Link:
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Resources boom sounds a warning to immigration sceptics – April 10
OUR new population debate confirms the urgent need to convince Australians they will benefit from the new mining boom prosperity. Building a new economic growth consensus should be a central task for Kevin Rudd’s new Population Minister Tony Burke and his bureaucratic support in Treasury. Article Link:
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When size matters: populate or perish scenarios – April 10
SINCE the 1904 Royal Commission into the Decline of the Birth Rate in NSW, there have been many attempts to work out what size population would best serve the county. Among the most recent was the 2002 CSIRO study for the Department of Immigration which explored the future effect of three population/immigration scenarios on the
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Immigration spike only a statistical illusion – April 10
THE recent spike in immigration numbers is at least partly due to a pen stroke — a change in the way the Australian Bureau of Statistics calculates its figures. Article Link:
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Open borders a well-meant road to chaos –
Free passage of people may be a liberal ideal but democracy gets in the way Article Link:
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