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 Issue 17, Summer 2008/09   OVERLOADING AUSTRALIA 

 - how governments and the media dither and deny on population by
Mark O’Connor and William J. Lines. Reviewd by Geoff Mosley.

Issue 16 Spring 200      COOPERATIVE CHAOS

Penny Wong goes quiet while the States hoard their powers over Murray Darling water.

from Issue 15, Winter 2008)  JARED  DIAMOND  ON AUSTRALIA’S SUSTAINABLE POPULATION 

Perchance the single most astonishing, ridiculously contradictory, set of public policies we face, is the left hand of government promoting reduced greenhouse emissions, conservation of diminishing freshwater, soil fertility and other declining natural resources, while the right hand promotes rapid population growth through immigration and increased birthrate. Is this a classic example of the left hand not knowing (or wanting to know) what the right hand is up to? Dr John O’Connor draws our attention to Professor Jared Diamond’s book Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive and the  chapter in it specifically on Australia.

 
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