Australian Population Dynamics Policies

Today was the first day of this semester. We started talking about Australian population policies. So we had to do some research about this policies and their main objectives and compare it with another country, which in this case, I selected China.


Talking about Australia, their main objective is to stabilize the population and help that our environment as a whole can sustain.


Next, a chart is shown, with various policies held.

Australia	China
More selective on immigration issues. This is just to control the population in Australia, which brings us to the second point. Population should restrict to what Australian lands can sustain, since only 6% of the continent is arable. But their main goal as a country is to stabilize population nationally and internationally, all for the environment.	Since 1970s China adopted policies in which citizens were encouraged to marry no earlier a certain age, longer spacing between births, and having fewer children. These last years, China has suggested the “One child policy” in order to stabilize and reduce the population at the country.

References

"A sustainable population strategy for Australia." Department of sustainability, environment, water, population, and communities.. Department of sustainability, environment, water, population, and communities., n.d. Web. 10 Jan 2011. <http://environment.gov.au/sustainability/population/publications/pubs/issues-paper-and-appendices.pdf>.

"China demography." Slideshare. N.p., 2008. Web. 10 Jan 2011. <http://www.slideshare.net/isc/china-population-policies>.

"Immigration to Australia." Slideshare. N.p., 2009. Web. 10 Jan 2011. <http://www.slideshare.net/alionacara/immigration-to-australia>.

"Sustainable population in Australia: Population policy." Minnesotans For Sustainability. Minnesotans For Sustainability, April 2002. Web. 10 Jan 2011. <http://www.mnforsustain.org/australia_sustainable_population_policy.htm>.