Population

THE key to quality of life for Australian families and communities during the coming four decades is not a population of 36 million, as Kevin Rudd advocates, but carefully managed sustainable growth. A random declaration of bigness is no substitute for a planned vision of a sustainable Australia. Article Link:

A surging population in regional centres around Canberra is set to place additional pressure on already strained infrastructure such as roads and town water supplies. Article Link:

The coalition’s internal policy process is continuing to malfunction and is continuing to damage the Liberals’ relationship with its key business constituency. Article Link:

AUSTRALIA has a history marked by uncertainty when it comes to population size. Even the Treasury’s Intergenerational Report that caused so much recent controversy by forecasting Australia’s population will rise to 36 million by 2050 is coy on the topic. Nowhere in its 164 pages does it set out the breakdown for the increase by

The Coalition is returning to an old playbook, tapping into concerns about an increasing number of asylum seekers arriving by boat and linking that to the overall issue of immigration. That in turn links into people’s fears about rocketing house prices, water shortages and a fluctuating job market in recent troubled times and bingo –

THE nation’s first Population Minister, Tony Burke, has ruled out setting population targets in the strategy that he will draw up over the next 12 months. Article Link:

TONY Abbott has fired a new shot in the population debate, declaring the nation should aim for a long-term target of 29 million people. That’s seven million fewer than the 36 million Treasury prediction for 2050. Last year Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he supported a “big Australia”, and in January Mr Abbott also talked

The population of Japan’s capital — one of the biggest cities in the world — has surpassed 13 million for the first time. Tokyo counted 13.01 million residents as of April 1, up 0.5 percent from the same month a year earlier, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Wednesday. The growth contrasts with the overall demographic

Sydney Morning Herald Article Link: http://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-ranks-second-quality-of-life-20091005-gjej.html