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 Mark O’Connor commenting on this article from the Guardian said, "Rudd and Swann claim Australia needs the world’s highest per capita immigration rate in order to compensate for its aging population.  One of the simplest answer’s to this claim is to note that we have in fact one of the youngest populations in the industrialised

Address by Kelvin Thomson, MP for Wills, to the Australian Capital Territory Branch of Sustainable Population Australia, Wednesday 10 February 2009   When I spoke in the Parliament in August last year about population I advanced two propositions – first that the world’s population needed to be stabilised, and second that Australia’s population needed to

AN assault on the South-East Queensland Regional Plan by Sunshine Coast MPs was cut short in Parliament when the government used its numbers to kill off debate on Thursday night. The planning scheme, which caters for a 75% growth in the Sunshine Coast’s population within 20 years, requires the council to make provision for 98,000

David Barnett writes a compelling message (“Need for hard thinking on immigration as population rises”, CT Feb 11, p19). Recent statements by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd reveal that he thinks we are powerless to prevent Australia’s population growing endlessly at a frightening rate. This is hard to believe because the Rudd Government has contributed greatly

Several population growth forums are being held next month including a State Government growth summit. The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) will also hold public hearings next month as part of its inquiry into the need for a state population policy. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) spokesman Simon Baltais says he does not expect the

Part 1: Overpopulation in 21st Century America – Our perilous Future   http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~736396.aspx Denver Post  Your Hub  February 23, 2010   In the early years of the 21st century, the United States continues on a course toward adding another 100 million people by 2035. (Source: “US Population Projections” by Fogel/Martin, PEW Report, U.S. Census Bureau)

 Here’s another stirring piece from the pen of the American activist and author Frosty Woolridge.  It is Part 2 in his ongoing series of reflections on population. It includes an implied refutation of the "Malthus was wrong" line so often put about by Rightwing think tanks and by the likes of Cardinal Pell. One of

 Here’s the third in Frosty Woolridge’s series on the dilemmas of population. ?There are some chilling analogies with Australia. Frosty writes In Australia, even though natural increase is still very high, with twice as many births as deaths each year, the mere prospect that by 2050 natural increase will fall away to zero has been