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- Title
- Population growth: what do Australian voters want?
- Author(s)
- Betts, Katharine
- Abstract
- Immigration-fuelled population growth has accelerated under the Rudd Government. Recent projections suggest that Australia may grow from its current 22 million to 35.9 million by 2050. This prospect has sparked a public debate about the country's demographic future. If population growth were to become an election issue how would Australian voters respond? Relevant new data are available from the latest Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, a mailout questionnaire sent to a large random sample of voters. It was completed between December 2009 and February 2010. The results show that only 31 per cent want growth while 69 per cent want stability. This is an increase on the proportions who have been pro-stability in the past: 50 per cent in 1977 and the 65 per cent in 2001.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- People and Place, Vol. 18, no. 1 (2010), pp. 49-64
- Publication year
- 2010
- FOR Code(s)
- 1205 Urban and Regional Planning; 1603 Demography
- Keyword(s)
- Attitudes; Australia; Demography; Immigration; Migration; Migration policy; Polls; Population growth; Public opinion; Rudd Government; Surveys
- Publisher
- Monash Centre for Population and Urban Research
- ISSN
- 1039-4788
- Publisher URL
- http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/482359
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 Monash University and Katharine Betts. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
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