27 million milestone stirs ‘population panic’ Community & Social ANU demographer Liz Allen believes some segments of the media are exploiting population growth to sow panic about migration.
Premium Insights and analysis Understanding what ‘unprecedented’ really means for foreign policy in Australia November 30, 2022 By Melissa Coade Editors' Picks Ex-federal secretary Dr Heather Smith on how the fundamental drivers of prosperity have been abandoned by nations around the world.
Low-income countries aren’t the issue with overpopulation November 16, 2022 By Matthew Selinske, Leejiah Dorward, Paul Barnes and Stephanie Brittain Australian Capital Territory You are now one of 8 billion humans alive today. The UN predicts a world population of 9.7 billion by 2050 and 10.3 billion by the year 2100.
House prices and demographics make death duties an idea whose time has come April 26, 2019 By John Mangan Editors' Picks It’s hard to tell what’s happening to the distribution of wealth in Australia. Since death duties went, Australian income inequality has climbed, with the standard measure (known as the Gini coefficient) climbing from 0.27 to 0.32 between 1982 and 2016 on a scale where a result of zero would mean income was equally shared and a result of 1 would mean one person earned all the income.
