Opinion

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

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

 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

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

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

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

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