A 'Sustainable' Population? - Key Policy Issues
Roundtable proceedings
The Commission held a roundtable on A 'Sustainable' Population? - Key Policy Issues, at Old Parliament House in Canberra on 21-22 March 2011.
Participants included government officials, academics, consultants and representatives of non-government organisations. Keynote addresses were presented by Professor Barry Chiswick from the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University, and Distinguished Professor Richard Arnott from the University of California, Riverside.
The Commission is grateful to the speakers, discussants, participants and others whose contributions made the roundtable such a valuable exercise.
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Foreword
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Preliminaries (PDF - 139 Kb)
Cover, Copyright,and Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 92 Kb)
Chapter 2 The determinants of Australia's future demography (PDF - 73 Kb)
General discussion (PDF - 23 Kb)
Session 1 - Population, productivity and participation
Chapter 3 Immigration: high-skilled versus low-skilled labour? (PDF - 78 Kb)
Chapter 4 Economic effects of population growth and ageing in Australia (PDF - 134 Kb)
Chapter 5 Population growth and the resources boom (PDF - 218 Kb)
General discussion (PDF - 27 Kb)
Session 2 - Limits to population growth?
Chapter 6 Planning sustainable cities in the 21st century (PDF - 113 Kb)
Discussant comments by John Daley (PDF - 26 Kb)
Discussant comments by Kevin O'Connor (PDF - 25 Kb)
Chapter 7 Dealing with congestion efficiently (PDF - 116 Kb)
Discussant comments by Henry Ergas (PDF - 48 Kb)
Chapter 8 Is decentralisation the answer? (PDF - 782 Kb)
Discussant comments by Larry Cook (PDF - 31 Kb)
Chapter 9 Environmental and resource constraints: myth or reality? (PDF - 27 Kb)
Discussant comments by Harry Clarke (PDF - 43 Kb)
General discussion (PDF - 31 Kb)
Session 3 - Social impacts of migration
Chapter 10 Immigration and public opinion (PDF - 123 Kb)
Chapter 11 Selection, migration and integration: why multiculturalism works in Australia (and fails in Europe) (PDF - 60 Kb)
Discussant comments by Max Corden (PDF - 33 Kb)
General discussion (PDF - 21 Kb)
Session 4 - Panel discussion:implications for policy directions
Dinner address
Chapter 12 The value of migration to Australia (PDF - 31 Kb)
Chapter 13 Background paper (PDF - 217 Kb)
Appendicies
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