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1	Stable population key to our future Letter to The Age 18th May 2010 by Vivienne Ortega.	109
2	Population growth report floats higher taxes The Queensland Government must consider an increase in taxes to manage future population growth, a new report has found.	76
3	Population pressure grows on Great Ocean Road Geelong Advertiser	296
4	Chinese ignite real estate boom Herald Sun Thursday 8/10/2009. Report on the Chinese impact on the Real Estate Market in Melbourne.	348
5	City an 'obese parody' JASON DOWLING of the Age Newspaper 7th October 09. "FEDERAL Labor MP Kelvin Thomson has savaged the Victorian Government's handling of urban planning in a blistering newsletter to constituents."	275
6	Million boost to city off the rails: experts The Age 10/10/2009	212
7	City 'lost control'of train network The Age 10/10/2009	337
8	The tide turns for sea-changers The Australian 10/10/2009	478
9	Sprawl of the wild The Age 11/10/09 Suburbs on the outer fringe of Melbourne should be built as communities	341
10	Welcome to Melbourne, but please step aside for the next newcomer theage.com.au, Lawrence MONEY October 12, 2009. "If the Victorian population clock is to be believed — and if I count my words carefully — then by the time you have finished reading this sentence, one more person will have arrived in Melbourne. ......." (A 'tongue in cheek' opinion piece look at population growth and the crowded conditions in Melbourne today!)	250
11	South East Queensland: beautiful one day, now a building site Before Kevin Rudd rushes headlong into embracing a population explosion for Australia, he might want to pause for a glance around his own backyard. smh.com.au	259
12	Salad days under threat as sprawling city comes knocking WITH its fields of silverbeet and neat rows of lettuce glistening in the sun, the farming enclave of Clyde on the Western Port plains doesn't look much like a battle zone. ....CARMEL EGAN November 15, 2009 theage.com.au	241
13	Bursting at the seams Jason Dowling and Clay Lucas examine a growing Melbourne and the strain 7 million people will have on essential services November 11, 2009	261
14	Sydney, Melbourne can't handle growth targets With business as usual (read: infrastructure kept as is, groaning under the current load), our major cities have no chance of remaining liveable and coping with projected population figures pulled out of the air by prime minister Kevin Rudd. Professor Newman from Curtin University's Sustainability Policy Institute says that our big cities will be just too disfunctional.	269
15	Brumby tackled on urban sprawl "PLANS to contain Melbourne's urban sprawl are "stone dead" and the city's cherished green wedge zones are in danger, according to a leading planner who has worked closely with the State Government." theage.com.au JASON DOWLING AND KATE LAHEY June 9, 2009	180
16	The big squeezy: PM's population plan questioned South-East Queensland civic leaders have called for a national framework to assist states and local councils to reach sustainable population targets. Speaking at a Brisbane Institute population growth seminar last night, Brisbane's Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said there needed to be more federal involvement in the future growth of the state's south-east corner. He also questioned the validity of the 'Big Australia' proposal, where the national population will grow to 35 million by the middle of this century. The Brisbane Times, Tony Moore 23-02-2010	230
17	Vote ends plan to extend city limit THE state government has scrapped plans to expand Melbourne's outer limits after a tax on land sales in growth areas was defeated in the upper house last night. Planning Minister Justin Madden told Parliament that without the tax the government was not prepared to move the boundary, which would free up more land for development. The Age SARAH-JANE COLLINS February 24, 2010	179
18	Cost of city congestion will hit $20bn, report finds CONGESTION in cities will continue to cost the nation dearly through billions of dollars in lost productivity, poorer health and worse work-family balance. Report in the Australian on the release of the State of the Cities Report 2010 (see Links>Web Links>Reports and Sources>Reports for the link to the report)	190
19	Singapore's population target in doubt The public housing crisis has revived the question whether Singapore, with only 700sq km of land, can continue to accommodate the current five million residents, let alone increase it by a further one-third. Seah Chiang Nee, The Star 27 Feb 10;	125
20	Britain's green spaces under threat from water shortages and house prices The chief scientific adviser, professor John Beddington, said sticking with "business as usual" management of land was not an option in the face of pressures such as climate change and population increases over the next 50 years. Friday 26 February 2010	146
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