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Tony Smith, writing a letter to the editor in The Herald Sun (23/02/09) reminds Victorians that current projected population increases mean “a 28% rise for Victoria in less than 17 years.” He reminds those with a pro-growth mentality that “an environment exists without an economy, but an economy can’t exist without an environment”.

Brian Cunningham, writing for SA’s The Advertiser on the 17th of February, ignores the environmental reality of population growth. He argues that increasing population growth increases wealth by expanding the economy, providing a bigger local market and increasing the skills base. Bob Couch, of Marino, reminds hims of this in his Letter to the Editor. Bob argues

Adam Cresswell, Health editor | March 07, 2009 – Article from: The AustralianHALTING the world’s rocketing population growth is the key to solving global warming — a solution that has been ignored or overlooked by leading climate change advocates.That was the warning yesterday from an Australian health expert, who said UN forecasts of a global

I’ve always felt that logic and sound evidence provide a pretty solid foundation for good policy-making. But some issues are more amenable to logic than others, and population is clearly the least amenable of all. I’m in the population doghouse yet again. On 1st February the Sunday Times carried a front page story based on

Mark O’Connor, co-author with Bill Lines of ‘Overloading Australia,’ was published in the Opinion section of South Australia’s The Advertiser last week. Writing that “Australia’s bizarrely high population growth lies behind many of our worst problems,” Mark pointed out that many of the environmental problems we face in Australia today – including water shortages, unaffordable housing, excessive

Nadya Suleman had 14. And they should all be taken from her and raised by fit parents. Seriously, I could care less about the fact that she’s unmarried, unemployed, unable to convince herself that she’s not Angelina Jolie. She’s a criminal. She’s a murderer. She’s not only guaranteeing her kids a very hard life, she’s

Recent projections published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics set out a range of possible demographic futures for Australia. This article examines 12 of these which all share the same life expectancy assumptions, but which differ in their assumptions for fertility and net overseas migration. It shows that all of the projection series that include

Access Australia, the main lobby group is gloating about its success in flooding Canberra with an orchestrated email protest campaign. Its use of language is enlightening: it refers to "consumers" rather than patients. IVF clinics are also exhorting potential patients – sorry, consumers – to write protest letters to politicians and the media. The IVF

The current financial meltdown is the result of under-regulated markets built on an ideology of free market capitalism and unlimited economic growth. The fundamental problem is that the underlying assumptions of this ideology are not consistent with what we now know about the real state of the world. The financial world is, in essence, a

Is still high, but only partly because of the one child policy China’s one child policy is one of the most controversial social policies ever implemented. The policy reduced the fertility rate and has helped raise living standards for most people in China, but it has been heavily criticised for violating human rights and having many negative social consequences,