dc.contributor.author | Lowe, Ian | |
dc.contributor.editor | Miller, C | |
dc.contributor.editor | Orchard, L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-21T01:14:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-21T01:14:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781447312673 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/144027 | |
dc.description.abstract | While it is given relatively little attention, population policy is
extremely important. Decisions taken now will have economic, social
and environmental consequences for many decades. So policy decisions
should be given very high priority. A consequence of federalism is
that most decisions about population policy are made by the national
government, for whom growth is at least a short-term benefit, whereas
the social and economic costs of that growth are largely borne by
state and territory governments. Refugees are a small fraction of the
migrants coming to Australia and refugee policy is largely driven by
international treaty obligations rather than government policies, but
the heated debate about the treatment of ‘boat people’ has confused the
broader issue of population. There is a broad consensus between the
major Australian political parties that supports a high rate of population
growth, mainly because of the belief that it has economic benefits. The
consensus covers both explicit and implicit population policies. The
differences at the margin only concern some relatively minor issues.
Underpinning the consensus are shared values about the primacy of
economic management over social and environmental considerations.
While the Green Party differs significantly from the Australian Labor
Party (ALP) and the coalition parties on those fundamentals, its policies
still support a growing population (Lowe, 2012). | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Policy Press at the University of Bristol | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.publisher.uri | http://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/australian-public-policy | |
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitle | Australian Public Policy: Progressive Ideas in the Neoliberal Ascendency | |
dc.relation.ispartofchapter | 13 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 229 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 244 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Population trends and policies | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 440305 | |
dc.title | Population policy | |
dc.type | Book chapter | |
dc.type.description | B1 - Chapters | |
dc.type.code | B - Book Chapters | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Lowe, Ian | |