This guide provides an overview of the drivers of Australia’s growing population and an introduction to the key concepts and terminology used.

This policy paper continues the discussion started in Australian attitudes to immigration: coming apart or common ground? It finds that, statistically, the wealth of the suburb we live in can have a major impact on the type of interaction we may have with migrants.

This paper discusses the findings of specially commissioned polling that explores the attitudes of ‘elites’ and ‘ordinary’ Australians to the issue that has caused the UK and US to ‘come apart’ - immigration.

The present social and political contexts are such that a population policy is likely for the first time in the country’s recent history. The government has indeed signalled a population policy (focused on migrant settlement) will be put forward with haste. Yet exactly what constitutes an appropriate population policy for contemporary Australia is still yet...

The potential value of Australia implementing (and progressively refining over time) an integrated national policy to direct, anticipate, monitor and respond to population change (i.e. a ‘population policy’) would appear to be considerable.