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Title: A bigger Australia: opinions for and against
Author(s): Betts, Katharine
Abstract: Final-release data from 2009-2010 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes are now available. These allow the analysis of attitudes to population growth across a wider range of background variables than in the pre-release data reported in the previous issue of People and Place. University graduates and migrants from non-English-speaking-backgrounds, especially if they are from high-income households, are the most likely to favour growth. In contrast, Australia-born non-graduates and people living in non-metropolitan areas are the least likely to do so. Voters who support the conservative parties are the most in favour of population stability but, even so, over two-thirds of Labor and Greens voters want stability. Many voters who are alienated from politics also support stability. Together these findings suggest opportunities for pro-stability parties and candidates in the forthcoming federal election.
Publication type: Journal article
Source: People and Place, Vol. 18, no. 2 (2010), pp. 25-38
Publication year: 2010
FOR Code(s): 1205 Urban and Regional Planning; 1603 Demography
Keyword(s): Attitudes; Australia; Demography; Immigration; Migration; Population growth; Public opinion
Publisher: Monash Centre for Population and Urban Research
ISSN: 1039-4788
Publisher URL: http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/482020
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