The 35-million projection was prepared by the Commonwealth Treasury. It parallels recent Australian Bureau of Statistics and state government population projections. All assume that the current record high net migration levels and high fertility (relative to a few years ago) will continue. If Australia reaches 35 million by 2050, choices about desired family size will
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People and Place Authors: Bob Birrell and Ernest Healy, Volume 17, Issue 4 (2009) The Australian Government has stated an unconditional commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by five per cent on year 2000 levels by 2020. However, in the absence of new abatement measures, Treasury-led modelling indicates that Australia’s emissions will grow from 553 million
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Maybe there is a bit of selfishness on each side. Those for higher population like the markets and money and political donations that come from industries that profit from higher population. Those against ask like Carr: “What’s wrong with a bit of space? What’s wrong with the possibility of being able to get to a
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If you were in or near Sydney, and interested in population, you would have been most welcome at the following event: The launch of Overloading Australia: How governments and media dither and deny on population (2nd edition), by Mark O‚Connor and William Lines. Venue: Dymocks City Store, 424 George Street, Sydney. Time: 11.00am Monday 1 February 2010.
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The idea of using high immigration to support Australia’s ageing population is like a giant pyramid scheme, MP Kelvin Thomson said at a public meeting in Canberra on 10 February. Addressing an audience of 150 at the meeting organised by the ACT Branch of Sustainable Population Australia, Mr Thomson said bringing in
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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