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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

National Director of Sustainable Population Australia 17 January 2002 © The Sydney Morning Herald Immigration must fall within the bounds of ecological sustainability if Australia is not to become a wasteland, writes Jenny Goldie. As more and more asylum seekers press on our shores, we need to know how many people this country can sustain. Social

© Australian Geographic Oct – Dec 2003 This old, dry continent simply can’t cope with any more people. AUSTRALIA’S POPULATION grows by a quarter of a million annually and is about 20 million. By mid-century we’ll hit 25 million. I believe our current population is unsustainable, putting unacceptable strains on our fragile resources. We desperately

4 November 2003 © The Sydney Morning Herald There has been a barrage of propaganda in favour of Australia aiming for a higher population figure than that which demographic trends suggest will be the case. Will there be 25 or 30 million Australians in 2030? Should we aim for 40 million by 2050? If so,

National Director of Sustainable Population Australia 13 November 2003 © Canberra Times WHAT must we do to achieve a sustainable society? About 200 people will gather in Canberra tomorrow to address this question. A conference at the Shine Dome will draw together the threads of the Internet “In Search Of Sustainability” conference that has run

  National Director of Sustainable Population Australia 14 November 2003 SPEECH TO ISOS CONFERENCE   Bryan Furnass, Bob Douglas and I sat down a year ago to organise this ISOS conference. We chose nine themes, broadly divided between environmental, social and economic issues. The national executive of my organisation, Sustainable Population Australia, was less than