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Population Growth in Australia : Past, Present and Future

Australia population: How big is too big? Australia 2050 (part 1) YouTube Video
Will Australia cope with the rise of mega cities? Australia 2050 (part 2) YouTube Video
Can we encourage migrants out of crowded cities? Australia 2050 (part 3) YouTube Video

ABC Article : Is Australia’s population growth mostly the result of migration, and is that the underpinning the budget Following the release of official population figures, Senator for Queensland Pauline Hanson labelled the Morrison Government's immigration-cutting agenda a "marketing ploy".
Australian Bureau of Statistics Population Statistics from Australian Government.
The Australian Institute : Population Growth in Australia
Future Feed A collection of news articles and blogs about future Melbourne.
Future Melbourne A resourceful site of the City of Melbourne which offers the up-to-date information about the goals and priorities of the Future Melbourne 2026 Plan.
Parliament Australia : Population and Migration Statistics in Australia
Plan Melbourne The official site of Plan Melbourne which introduces the urban plans and projects in Melbourne.
Trading Economics : Australia Population 1960 – 2019 Data | 2020 – 2022 Forecast | Historical | Chart | New
The Urban Development : What’s going on with Australia’s population growth
Urban Melbourne A site featuring Melbourne's latest urban planning projects as well as the relevant articles about the city's planning, development, transport, sustainability & environment, etc.
Urban Planning (The City of Melbourne) Featured pages exploring a range of strategies and projects for the sustainable development of Melbourne.

Services and Infrastructure we may need by 2055

Infrastructure Australia : Australian Infrastructure Plan A report on priorities and reforms for our nation’s future.
Australia Infrastructure Audit 2019 : Social Infrastructure
Infrastructure Australia : Australia’s Infrastructure Priorities Infrastructure Partnerships Australia actively brings together governments, private stakeholders and the community to advance the public debate and champion infrastructure development and service delivery.
Infrastructure Victoria : Advice on Securing Victoria’s Ports Capacity In May 2017 Infrastructure Victoria provided advice to the Victorian Government on when to invest in container port capacity and whether a second container port should be located at the existing Port of Hastings, or a new Bay West location. There are three key elements of the advice.
Victoria : 30 Year Infrastructure Strategy This webpage contains a document library of current and past fact sheets, reports and assessments, including a PDF/ WORD document about Victoria's 30-year infrastructure strategy which sets out a pipeline of initiatives to be delivered over the next three decades.

Library Catalogue

Rua Resource Centre catalogue Click into the 'Search' box to begin your search. See the drop down list for more options (for example - title, author or subject ).

eResources

Library electronic resources help in finding subject-related literature such as journals, book chapters, magazine and newspaper articles, facts, statistics, background information, etc. Subscription is paid by the library to allow access to reliable sources. Following eResources are selected to assist your search based on the information needs on this particular topic.

The Age Newspaper

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Millions of articles from thousands of scholarly journals and other authoritative sources across a wide range of academic disciplines.Discover peer-reviewed articles to inspire research and validate your findings with Academic OneFile’s extensive collection of academic journals.
Issues & Current Affairs - ECHO This link opens in a new window
ECHO offers extensive information content drawn from newspapers and the Internet. It selectively indexes three major Australian newspapers and provides a searchable index on-line.
High School This link opens in a new window
High School Resource offers current and authoritative content to facilitate your needs of resources for your assignments.

eBooks - Social Sciences
eBooks useful for Australian Curriculum in Geography.

Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Global Issues ties together sources to present a rich analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural - and headlines in world hot spots, while also summarizing background information, historical context, and contemporary stances.
Sources include full-text international magazines, academic journals, primary sources, statistics, (graphs, tables, charts) and websites, including government sites and organizations.

Strategies to Plan Future

Latitude Geography : The Urban Dynamics of Change Suburbanisation, Exurbanisation, Counter Urbanisation , Decentralisation, Urban decay, Urban Renewal, Urban Village , Consolidation, Spatial Exclusion.
Urban Renewal in Australia : What Next?
Victorian Planning Authority - Urban Renewal

Decentralisation

Please click on the following photo to view the original map regarding the regional growth plans envisaged by Plan Melbourne.

Decentralisation Map

Netflix Documentaries

American Factory - Trailer Log in to College Netflix account to watch full documentary. Cultures collide. Hope survives. When a Chinese billionaire re-opens a factory and hires two thousand blue-collar Americans, early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
Minimalism - Trailer Log in to College Netflix account to watch full documentary. People dedicated to rejecting the American ideal that things bring happiness are interviewed in this documentary showing the virtues of less is more.
The Pursuit - Trailer Log in to College Netflix account to watch full documentary. Globetrotting economist Arthur Brooks explores ways to help marginalized communities around the world make progress toward prosperity and happiness.

Humanities - Geography: Changing Nations