Should Australia target its population size?

From: Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: Clarke, Harry | Copyright information

1 Introduction

Should the Australian Commonwealth Government set long-term population targets that it then pursues using activist immigration and natural population growth policies? For example, should Australia target a desired population of 30 million people by the year 2050 and then pursue policies to achieve this target? The Government has recently come under pressure to set such long-term targets although it has steadfastly refused to do so. An immediate difficulty ...

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