Frontiers of settlement in Australia—fifty years on

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Griffith Taylor's 1911 forecast of a year 2000 population of 19 million in Australia corresponds closely the projection of 19.35 million by 2001 with immigration at 100,000 per year made by the National Population Enquiry. Taylor's 1926 comments about the likely future distribution of population in Australia are borne out by the 1971 census results. Land, however, has become a crucial limiting factor for growth in the crowded tenth of Australia, between Gladstone and Geelong in the southeast. The land‐use conflicts and pressures in this zone provided great opportunities for geographers to apply their skills, preferably in teams, in the analysis of practical problems. Involvement, however, involves a social conscience and the need to distinguish between true research and merely descriptive statistical analysis.

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