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The Nigerian government must design more interventions to improve education, employment opportunities and the economy in order to control the country’s population growth.
Australia lacks a coherent national approach to planning where settlement and growth happens. It’s time to take stock of our cities and regions and work together to improve outcomes across the nation.
Australia’s skilled migration program simply isn’t working the way it is supposed to.
Immigration is neither the problem nor solution in many areas where Australia is off-track, from government debt to environmental action.
Population growth has pros and cons, and the Morrison government’s plan is less about a change in immigration numbers than about increasing the benefits and minimising the costs.
Population growth in Australia is a problem mainly because of the lack of a coherent national policy to manage it. The focus needs to be on maintaining quality of life through sustainable growth.
Efforts by governments to redirect population growth to regional Australia have never worked. Even if such policies could be made to work, they probably wouldn’t be worth the costs.
Many people think a population policy is about control – like the one-child policy in China, for instance. But modern population policies are about population-well-being.
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor in The Future of Work, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Population Geography, Adelaide University
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Assistant Chief Planning Officer, National Centre for Technology Management, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Practitioner in Residence, The Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Professor of Environmental Geography, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Demography and Social Statistics, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Thomas Wiedmann is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Sustainability Research, UNSW
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DST/NRF SARCHl Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute