People for Australia: A Study in Population Problems by A Lodewyckx with a foreword by Ian Clunies Ross

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Signed by previous owner. Dust jacket is in good condition with wear to corners and marks on front and back covers. Interior and binding are still very good.

Opens with the saga of settlement in many lands, but especially in Australia. It contains an account of the mighty movements of people in previous ages, of their fierce quests for good earth in which to grow food, and of their adventurous explorations.

Those who colonised Australia were kinsmen of these hardy men and women who sailed through uncharted seas and trampled across unknown lands, fighting, grazing and planting, building and breeding, to establish their family kingdoms that, in later years, became welded into great nations.

But what is Australia's future? It is a nation, yet a nation still being formed. Are Australians, regardless of their stock, working to ensure a safe and prosperous future?

Who should people Australia? What is the country's capacity for yielding food and carrying the people? What are the trends, formed naturally and politically, in the birth and death rates? Are the empty spaces capable of being populated further, or shall they remain always deserted and barren? Is the land being properly worked?

From a vast store of knowledge gathered while working in many lands, Professor Lodewyckx proffers answers to these pertinent questions that need an imperative solution.

What he advocates is practical but provocative: if adopted, his plans would revolutionise farming across the whole continent and radically alter customary ways of life. Should Australia become a more industrialised land or should it remain a land of large-scale farming?