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Liz Allen

The Future of Us: Demography gets a makeover by Liz Allen

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May 2020, no. 421
Peter Mares reviews 'The Future of Us: Demography gets a makeover' by Liz Allen

In Australia, debate about population runs in well-worn grooves. The focus is on size – ‘big Australia’ versus ‘not-so-big Australia’ – and the tool used to regulate numbers is immigration. When politicians link population growth to excessive house prices, traffic congestion, unemployment, or crime, they call for immigration cuts, not for birth control.

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States of Poetry 2016 - New South Wales | State Editor's Introduction by Elizabeth Allen

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States of Poetry New South Wales - Series One

Editing an anthology of poets from New South Wales is both a wonderful and confronting task. Wonderful because you get to spend close-reading time with the work of poets that you greatly admire; confronting because of all the excellent poets you might include. However, one can take comfort in the fact that this anthology is going to be an annual occurrence, and in t ...