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I refer to the article "Don’t you worry about that" (C-M June 29) in which Premier Peter Beattie comments on the impact of Queensland’s population growth on infrastructure. I certainly worry about the premier’s judgment about population growth. Just as he believed Queensland’s health and water supply had no problems, so he blandly states his

It is a considerable pity that none of our political leaders are likely to read, let alone ponder, your thoughtful editorial of 29 June, "Getting a fix on the population debate". For both major parties, it would seem, population policy is simply a matter of the more, the better. Peter Costello has led the way

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