Population: policies and lobbyists

(With Bob Birrell) Truthy untruths: behind the facade of the Intergenerational Report, The Conversation, 24 July 2015

(With Bob Birrell) The 2015 Intergenerational Report: Misleading findings and hidden agendas, July 2015, The Australian Population Research Institute

‘The tenuous link between population and prosperity’, The Conversation, 13 March 2015

Panel member, debate on ‘Population control’, chaired by Sally Warhaft, Melbourne Writers Festival, 2 September 2011

(With B. Birrell, E. Healy, and T. F. Smith), Immigration and the Resources Boom Mark 2, Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University, July, 2011

‘Public opinion and the politics of immigration’ (Conference paper), 2nd annual Population 2050 Australia Summit, Informa, 26-27 September, 2011, Rendezvous Hotel, Melbourne

‘Population and multiculturalism: Immigration, integration and crime’, in A. McIntyre (Ed.), The Greens: Policies, Reality and Consequences, Connor Court, Ballan, 2011

‘Review: Overloading Australia by Mark O’Connor and Bill Lines’, People and Place, vol. 17, no. 1, 2009, pp. 76-80

(with Michael Gilding), ‘The growth lobby and Australia’s immigration policy’, People and Place, vol. 14, no. 4, 2006, pp. 40-52

A response to C. Butler’s ‘Population and environment in Australia: a report commissioned by the Population and Environment Research Fund Committee of the Australian Academy of Science‘ 2004

‘Review of Selecting by Origins: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State’, Christian Joppke’, Global Change, Peace & Security, vol. 18, no. 2, 2006, pp. 126-128 (Manuscript version)

‘Immigration policy under the Howard Government’, Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol. 38 no. 2, 2003, pp. 169-192

‘Review of James Jupp, From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration’, Journal of Population Research, vol. 20 no. 1, May, 2003, pp. 147-150 (Manuscript version)

‘Review of Mark Lopez, The Origins of multiculturalism in Australian Politics 1945-1975’, People and Place, vol. 8, no. 3, 2000, pp. 83-86 (Manuscript version)

The Great Divide: Immigration Politics in Australia (a fully revised and updated second edition of Ideology and Immigration) Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney, 1999 (pp. 42) (A partial synopsis is online.)

‘Left Exposed’, Review of Mark O’Connor, This Tired Brown Land’, Quadrant, vol. 43 no. 4, (April), 1999, pp. 76-77 (Manuscript version)

‘Population policy_major party positions 1998’, People and Place, vol. 6 no. 2, 1998, pp. 37-43

‘Population policy issues’, The Social Contract, vol. 8 no. 2, 1997-98, pp. 82-89

‘Review of Doug Cocks, People Policy’, The Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, no. 85, 1997, pp. 125-127 (Manuscript version)

‘Review of Roy Beck, The Case Against Immigration‘, People and Place, vol. 4 no. 3, 1996, pp. 64-66

‘Explaining Australian Immigration 1996’, The Journal of the Australian Population Association , vol. 13 no. 2, 1996, pp. 195-229

‘The law and the management of Australian immigration’, People and Place, 1995, vol. 3 no. 2, 42-46

‘Humanitarian claims for permanent residence’, People and Place, vol. 2 no. 3, 1994, pp. 35-39

Review of M. Crock (Ed.) Protection or Punishment: The Detention of Asylum-Seekers in Australia‘, People and Place, vol. 2 no. 1, 1994, pp. 50-53

Review of G. Bottomley, From Another Place: Migration and the Politics of Culture, International Migration Review, vol. 27 no. 4, 1993, p. 899

‘Refugee-status procedures and the boat people’, People and Place, vol. 1 no. 3, 1993, pp. 9-15

‘Haitian boat people and the Clinton presidency’, People and Place, vol. 1 no. 1, 1993, pp. 30-33

‘Racism and population: myths for the growth lobby’, Without Prejudice, vol. 6, May, 1993, pp. 35-47 (Manuscript version)

‘Australia’s new population report’, The Social Contract (USA), vol. 3 no. 4, Spring 1993, pp. 268-276

‘Immigration and two new worlds’, The Social Contract (USA), vol. 2 no. 2, Winter 1991-2, pp. 75-78

‘Australia’s distorted immigration policy‘, D. Goodman, D. J. O’Hearn and C. W. Crabb (Ed.), Multicultural Australia: The Challenge of Change, Scribe, Newham (Victoria), 1991

‘The global population’, The Australian Rationalist, vol. 6 (March), 1991, pp. 13-16

Ideology and Immigration: Australia 1976 to 1987, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988 (pp. 234) An outline of the argument is available online.

(with Robert Birrell) ‘The FitzGerald Report on immigration policy: origins and implications, Australian Quarterly, vol. 60 no. 3, 1988, pp. 261-274

‘Teamwork that didn’t pay’, Australian Society, vol. 2 no. 11, 1983, pp. 12-13