recent job growth , due to forecasting errors that first overstated, then understated the growth in the adult population." (The Age, Tim Colebatch) ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-11 11:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

And finally (Population growth, Vanity Fair) ... Population density " We would like to direct your attention to this remarkable, fascinating, and interactive (!)  population ...

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but not “big” government. Like most contemporary economic liberals, he is suspicious of the growth ... as a natural egalitarian. Turnbull has certainly kept a keen eye on the recent growth of inequality, especially ... concerning ethnicity and race – the meaning of the dispossession of the indigenous population, the idea ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

What is the limit to human population growth? "As we sail past the seven-billion mark toward eight, nine, or ten billion, we should, sooner ... (Global food supply, Population growth, New Yorker) ...

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economy and population surge, Canberra faces diplomatic challenges in forging closer ties with New Delhi. ... of post-reform surging growth, which has seen its economy grow by around 8% per year, lifting it into the ten largest economies in the world. Its population is poised to become the world’s largest within ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Population growth, Guardian) ... What a population of 7 billion means for the planet "The 21st century is not yet a dozen years old, and there are already 1 billion more ...

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the population has dwindled to a couple of hundred. School attendance is at best sporadic. A government business ... with the community. Ali Curung has been earmarked as a ‘Territory Growth Town’, supposedly part of a township ... is the largest town in Australia with a majority Aboriginal population, and Elliott, while smaller, also has ...

The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

prominent commentators discuss the numerous pros and cons of predicted population growth. The panel, chaired ... population growth" , BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, April 2010. ... Australia’s population will grow to between 36 and 44 million by 2050. The gowth will mainly be in urban ...

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prominent commentators discuss the numerous pros and cons of predicted population growth. The panel, chaired ... population growth" , BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, April 2010. ... Australia’s population will grow to between 36 and 44 million by 2050. The gowth will mainly be in urban ...

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prominent commentators discuss the numerous pros and cons of predicted population growth. The panel, chaired ... population growth" , BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, April 2010. ... Australia’s population will grow to between 36 and 44 million by 2050. The gowth will mainly be in urban ...

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to abortion. * The United Nations Population Fund estimates that 42.6 million Chinese girls have gone ... In some villages there are as many as five boys to every girl. In some of the more populous provinces ... with girls is even more staggering. In Guangdong, the province with the largest population, the sex-ratio ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2010-06-10 14:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

on the government as a result of the ageing population going up and up, and what I am saying is that now is the time ... of the anti–Vietnam War and counterculture protests of the 1960s and ’70s. The long arc of economic growth ...

The Monthly - Peter Hartcher - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Population Crisis is Smith's new book exploring the crucial issue of unsustainable population growth ... Dick Smith explains why population is the issue that lies at the heart of many of the world's most ... consumption of fossil fuels and climate change - and how society's quest for infinite economic growth ...

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and the world’s population growth is out of control - yet there is precious little debate about this issue ... of Australia’s population debate in the 21st century, may surprise. Australia’s population (currently 21.5 ...

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Now, after 20 years of uninterrupted economic growth, and as the twentieth anniversary of Keating’s ... for themselves. The overseas-born population increased by 1 million in Howard’s final two terms, according ... the United Kingdom accounted for 6.4% of the total population, while the six Asian nations mentioned above ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

determine Australia’s future. We got where we are because irrigation allowed population growth. But growth ... 'sustainable’ population, but with good coffee. An alternative reality crowd at the other end of the spectrum. ... than half of Griffith’s population has Italian heritage, a mixture of North and South, largely from ...

The Monthly - Kate Jennings - 2011-10-07 13:05 - 14 comments - 0 attachments

population growth to “a plague of locusts”, he forecasts “sheer misery and starvation”. “The crime rate will ... Dick Smith’s Population Crisis: The Dangers of Unsustainable Growth for Australia (Allen & Unwin, ... here.” Conflating economic, population and consumption growth as transposable evils, he likens his ...

The Monthly - Guy Pearse - 2011-06-02 13:08 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Prof. Graeme Hugo considers future scenarios of population growth and distribution of the Australian population in the light of the changing availability of water. ANU, Canberra, July 2008 (Part 1 of 2) ... 1130390 The debate on population and water is a long-standing one in Australia ...

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Graeme Hugo considers future scenarios of population growth and distribution of the Australian population ... 1130384 The debate on population and water is a long-standing one in Australia ...

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the metropolis with pure drinking water. Population growth had outstripped the water supply and so competition ... City, Population growth, Travel) ...

The Monthly - Janette Turner ... - 2011-05-13 16:18 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

these scenarios have played out, relating to economic growth, trade, use of resources, population growth ... 1990500 The Limits to Growth , published in 1972, was a landmark ...

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on population growth, and so on. But it’s a hard case to make now against the federal government, as Julia ... or Scripture-reciting atheist, her best quality is simpler: she’s tough as guts. And if the population ever cottons ...

The Monthly - Annabel Crabb - 2011-09-19 11:06 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

astonishing economic story. China’s industrial growth has swept tens of millions of young Chinese from ... with not only the world’s largest population but also the world’s largest greenhouse gas emissions, largest army ... inequality rises. Currently the average income of the richest 10% of the Chinese population is 65 times ...

The Monthly - Andrew Charlton - 2011-06-02 13:40 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

the Japanese economy has flatlined, debt has soared, morale has plummeted and the population will soon start ... are made in China. Today, China is Japan’s largest trading partner and China’s growth has done more than ... But China’s growth could render this arrangement untenable. Japan deeply fears that, as China grows ...

The Monthly - Hugh White - 2011-05-13 14:43 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

ministership. Running large budget deficits and having mounting public debt in a time of strong growth driven ... intellectually bankrupt left-wing populism that has been so prominent in Latin American history. The intellectual ...

The Monthly - Lindsay Tanner - 2011-09-06 11:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments