There has been a meteoric rise in enrolments of overseas students in cooking courses in Australia from around 1019 in 2004 to 8242 in 2008. All are trained in full-time courses conducted mainly by private providers – rather than via the apprenticeship system as is the case for Australian-trained cooks. Most of the overseas students […]
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CANBERRA, ACT Conversion from hunting and gathering to farming, a transition that allowed human population numbers to explode, lies at the heart of all our environmental problems, according to Duncan Brown. Brown, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Wollongong, is the author of the recently published book: “Feed or
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“Penny Wong, in her last speech to the Poznan Conference identified Australia’s population growth as a serious impediment to achieving the Rudd Government’s own 2050 emission reduction target. Yet every state government, with the full support of Federal Government policy, is chasing population growth and growth in per capita consumption, very substantially increasing, rather than
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7 July 2003 © People and Place William Lines is author of Open Air (New Holland, 2001). This is extracted from his article, co-written, with Natalie Sloan, from the present issue of People and Place. THE Australian Greens no longer speak for conservation in Australia. Why? Because of their increasingly left-wing pose and their
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Population Doublings The banker’s “1-70” rule of thumb states that 1 percent per annum growth (or compound interest) means a doubling of capital every seventy years; 2 percent growth means a doubling every 35 years, and so on. If Australia’s population continues to grow at its recent rate it will double in about 50 years.
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SPA Population Policy(75Kb) – SPA National Executive, Nov 2005 The policy outlines SPA’s position on how Australia can achieve and ecologically sustainable population. It also provides a brief background into the current impact of Australia’s existing population. Other Population Policies ACF Population Policy (scroll to the bottom of the page) – Australian Conservation Foundation Greens
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Wednesday, 2 May 2007 South East Queensland’s population growth has reached such a level that the region’s communities will struggle to make it through changing climate patterns say conservationists. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released recently stated that droughts are likely to be more frequent with increased risk of water shortage,
It was pleasing that The Canberra Times put the subject of world population growth (“2050 population 9 billion: UN”, March 15) on its front page. The story reported that the expected 2.5 billion increase from now until 2050 will be equivalent to the world’s entire population in 1950, but missed the United Nations’ qualification that
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It seems churlish to criticise the US President’s new $1.2bn five-year malaria initiative (Bush renews efforts to cut malaria deaths, GW, Jan 5-11), nor the earlier $15bn President’s emergency plan for Aids relief (PEPFAR). Yet so much money given in aid by the US Government has had strings attached that one has to ask: what
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