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NEWS: 16 September 2011

New body to tackle state’s growing pains

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Queensland will today get a new agency charged with managing the state’s population growing pains. Premier Anna Bligh will be in Mackay this morning to unveil Growth Management Queensland, a body charged with ensuring a regional approach to population growth. – another example of the increase in costs in supporting surging population growth. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/queensland-property/new-body-to-tackle-states-growing-pains-20100525-wauk.html

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NEWS: 15 September 2011

South American transition to low fertility spreads to paraguay – May 2010

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Paraguay does not seem a likely candidate for rapid fertility decline: The population is poorer, more rural, and has lower educational levels than its neighboring countries. Yet despite a large population that is traditionally hard to reach with reproductive health information and services, Paraguay recorded a remarkable increase in contraceptive use and a sharp decline

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NEWS: 15 September 2011

Child marriage in the middle east and north Africa – May 200

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Early marriage compromises girls’ development and often results in early pregnancy and social isolation. Child marriage also reinforces the vicious cycle of early marriage, low education, high fertility, and poverty. Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa region have laws on the minimum legal age for marriage, but some families take advantage of

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NEWS: 15 September 2011

Thou shalt not breed: anglicans

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THE Anglican Church wants Australians to have fewer children and has urged the federal government to scrap the baby bonus and cut immigration. Wading into the population debate, the General Synod of the Anglican Church has warned that current rates of population growth are unsustainable and potentially out of step with church doctrine – including

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NEWS: 15 September 2011

Fixing public transport

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The problem with public transport, we’re often told, is the shape of our cities: Australian sprawl is impossible to service effectively with trains and trams and buses. So we end up reliant on the car and stuck in traffic. If only Australia’s capitals were more compact, more closely settled, more, I don’t know, European! Then

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NEWS: 15 September 2011

Less migration will slow growth in population

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Population growth will slow markedly in the coming two years, helping to ease upward pressure on interest rates and rental accommodation, the forecasting group BIS Shrapnel says. This report is not publicly available, BIS Shrapnel sell it for $4,620, see: http://www.bis.com.au/reports/bia_r.html So there is no way we can see what assumptions were made and the

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