This event has now passed. However, video recordings from the conference are now available. These can be watched from the Fenner 2022 website (link here) or the Fenner 2022 YouTube channel (link here). You may also be interested in our retrospective of the conference at our website here. Australian agriculture today is largely unsustainable. …
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Official Launch with Professor the Hon. Bob Carr and Leith van Onselen, MacroBusiness Population growth and infrastructure in Australia: the catch-up illusion A new report commissioned by Sustainable Population Australia Tuesday 26 November 2019, 10am The Metcalfe Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie St, Sydney This is a FREE event. Includes morning tea. RSVP your attendence at …
An important public meeting for concerned Sydney residents
Guest speakers:
Come and ask your own questions:
2 pm, Saturday November 8, Glebe Town Hall
Kelvin Thompson, Federal Member for Wills in Coburg, Melbourne, has again pointed out that “A bigger Melbourne is not a better Melbourne”. Fimmaker and SPA member Fred Zervas has recorded his speech which you can see at: http://vimeo.com/36865208
If you want to be happier, live in a country town with fewer than 30,000 people. Article Link: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/06/01/2915141.htm
Figures released by the National Population and Family Planning Commission have estimated China’s population will reach 1.39 billion by the end of 2015, with those aged 60 or over topping 200 million people. Over the next five years, China’s urban population will also surpass its rural counterpart, with city dwellers expected to exceed 700 million. …
China’s Population Rapidly Moving to Cities, Getting Old 7th July, 2010 Read More »
Treasury Secretary Ken Henry says cities may need to be built from scratch to handle Australia’s urban population growth over the next 50 years. He says on current projections, Australia’s existing capital cities will be home to an extra 10.5 million people by 2056. Article Link:
Beijing municipal people’s congress revealed this week that the Chinese capital now has 19.72 million inhabitants, growing by over 3 per cent in the past 2 years. Previous estimates had predicted that the city’s population would swell to that level a decade later than it has. According to the guidelines regarding Beijing’s development between 2004 …
Beijing’s Population Surges Near 20 Million – 24 July 2010 Read More »
Adelaide – INFRASTRUCTURE on the city’s fringe is already buckling under pressure, before massive population increases flagged in the state 30-Year Plan have even begun. Article Link: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/citys-fringe-crumbles-under-unsupported-growth/story-e6frea83-1225896286711
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 …
