Considering all the aspects of life in Australia that are affected by population, it’s remarkable that the nation doesn’t have a national policy on it.
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Melbourne is Australia’s most rapidly growing city, a title it wrested from Perth around 2013-14. Several of Australia’s big cities are growing well above the national average population growth rate.
According to widely-cited estimates, world food production must double by 2050 to keep up with population growth. New research challenges this target and calls for balancing growth with conservation.
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to global food insecurity except that the West needs to learn to consume, and waste, less.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd writes of Australia having lost its national bearings and being powerless to act to find its way in the world.
the end of the mining boom has breathed new life into parts of the Tasmanian economy. But there are also several worrying indicators – like population growth and unemployment – to be addressed.
Researchers ran computer simulations that take into account environmental variability and geographical setting to investigate how early explorers made it to these tiny, remote islands in the Pacific.
Feeding nine billion people by 2050 is possible – if we start applying some science.
In the media, urban consolidation is often depicted as a threat to Australian suburban life. In reality, it’s a result of managed planning processes to ensure growing cities remain liveable.
With the failures of past planning now apparent, the unruly threat of a damaged and depleting planet is ushering us toward a fourth era of urban restructuring. What might City v4.0 look like?
Farms on Sydney’s fringes supply 20% of the city’s food. That could drop by more than half if urban sprawl isn’t kept in check.
Inner-city parents in urban redevelopment zones are the most likely to have problems getting their children into a government school.
Divorce rates are on the decline in Australia, people are marrying and having children later in life, and more of us live alone. Our experts respond to the new report on Australia’s welfare.
Humanity is on course for a population greater than 11 billion by the end of this century, according to the latest analysis from the UN’s population division. In a simple sense, population is the root…
The demand for agricultural products in Africa is expected to rise over the next 35 years due to factors such as population growth, urbanisation, economic growth and changing diets.
Societies overwhelmingly endorse reproduction, but the pressure this places on people who don’t want to have kids may be putting their health at risk.
A sterilisation camp held in Chhattisgarh, an impoverished state in central India, has claimed the lives of 13 women, most of whom were young and marginalised. The women, who died within hours of the procedure…
The rise in population since 1900 has been so rapid that up to 14% of all humans that have ever lived are still alive today, according to recent research. Other research shows that slowing population growth…
In 1972 a group of scientists, known collectively as the Club of Rome, constructed a detailed mathematical model to test whether population growth and economic development could continue indefinitely and…
The latest population projections from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), released earlier this week, suggest Australia’s future population growth will be considerably greater than previously indicated…
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Honorary Associate Professor in Planning, University of Queensland, University of Sydney
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Professor of population and development studies, University of Kinshasa
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Dornsife Endowed Professor of Global Health, Drexel University
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Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Principal Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Deputy Director, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus professor, Monash University
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Academic Director, Murdoch University
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Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Centre for Health Policy, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
