EVER had trouble explaining to somebody why Australia taking more immigrants can’t make any real difference to world poverty? In a dramatic presentation (Click here to see video) journalist Roy Beck uses jars of gumballs to show why. On stage he stacks up jars containing 3000 gumballs, representing the 3 billion people in the world who live on
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Tony Jones opened by saying that Mark Latham had belled the cat by pointing out that you can't propose to limit population unless you can limit immigration. So why wouldn't the government promise to limit immigration? Jones to his credit kept the debate on population and immigration rather than sliding across onto asylum-seekers in the
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The so-called ageing problem is a result of two factors – declining mortality and declining fertility. But, for Australia at least, these trends have existed for the last 150 years or more. In 1860, Australia’s death rate was 2.0% p.a. – it is now 0.7%. The birth rate was 4.3% p.a. – it is now 1.2%. But ageing has not
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THE MOST important documentary shown on Australian TV since Dick Smith’s Population Puzzle – that’s Sir David Attenborough’s brilliant hour-long special How many people can live on planet Earth? If you haven’t already seen it, don’t miss it! The SBS link to the program has now expired, but can be viewed on YouTube. You can
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Download and listen to the full article at ABC Radio National, "Background Briefing" at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2010/2959674.htm As the world's available farming land shrinks in the face of population growth, climate change and soil degradation, Australia's vast tracts of land are going to be increasingly important for global food security. Overseas players are already buying up
Pratt, it seems, was not just corrupt himself but a major corrupter of others through bribery and intimidation. Ex-PMs Fraser, Whitlam and Hawke, according to the Age, were on the Visy payroll. (It does not mention that a more recent ex-PM Kevin Rudd was embarrassingly compliant, even visiting the dying Pratt and temporising with his
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The US has tried, in desperation, to staunch the northward migration of Latin Americans in a variety of expensive ways with little success. This is probably because Latin Americans are just as desperate to leave the miseries of Latin America behind as the US is to avoid having these miseries exported northward. Thus far, little
Immigration Minister Chris Evans has reportedly said the immigration debate is “killing” the government. Fairfax Radio Network station 2UE cited the minister as making the remark today at a conference, which was closed to the media, hosted by the University of NSW. It said the senator told immigration experts at the event the debate was
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His comments come as Prime Minister Julia Gillard this week continued to press the phrase ”sustainable population” into the pre-election political lexicon. In a speech targeting apparent voter concern in a swag of Labor marginal seats, Ms Gillard conceded the population would continue to grow. But the issue for Australia was the speed of that
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The NSW Branch recently held a public forum with Kelvin Thomson who outlined his concerns about our current population projections and offered his proposals for stabilising Australia’s population. Before the meeting Kelvin Thomson had been addressing the 2050 Popuulation Summit. The summit was too expensive for the branch to attend so a decision was taken
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