PUBLIC LECTURE: How many people can Australia eat? The Politics of Population and Consumption

An IAS public lecture by David Ritter, Commentator, Academic and Campaigner.

The question of how big Australia should become is once again in the news. Twenty million? Thirty million? Fifty million? More?

What are the implications for our cities, suburbs, social cohesion and fragile ecosystems? Can we really have a meaningful population debate without a wider debate about consumption and Australia’s place in the world? And what does it mean for WA in particular?

Drawing on his essay in ‘Prosper or Perish’, Edition 29 of the 'Griffith Review', to be published in August, David’s lecture on population and consumption will tackle some of the confronting implications of Australia’s population debate.