Australia Population

I am surprised to find out that Australia population growth rate is so high. I do worry about the limited environmental resource, especially freshwater resource in the drought Australia. I don't think that the high population growth is the key answer to solve economic and aging problems.

Growth head and shoulders above India (The Sydney Morning Herald, JESSICA IRVINE AND JACOB SAULWICK, September 23, 2009)
Australia 'sleepwalking' into population disaster (ABC news, Lyndal Curtis, Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:01pm AEST)

Demographics of Australia
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Growth head and shoulders above India (The Sydney Morning Herald, JESSICA IRVINE AND JACOB SAULWICK, September 23, 2009)
AUSTRALIA is poised to be the world's fastest growing industrialised nation over the next four decades, with a rate of population growth higher even than India.

It means that if the G20 leaders gathering in Pittsburgh this week were to line up according to expected population growth, Kevin Rudd would be in second place, standing only behind Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah who can expect his population to grow by 74 per cent by 2050.

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Australia 'sleepwalking' into population disaster (ABC news, Lyndal Curtis, Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:01pm AEST)
Federal Labor backbencher Kelvin Thomson says Australia's projected population explosion will have a "catastrophic" effect on the environment and he has called for immigration levels to be cut.

The latest Intergenerational Report predicts Australia's population will rise to 35 million in 40 years' time, up from about 21.5 million people at present.

Higher migration and women having more children will account for the boost in numbers.
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