On Sunday Switzerland votes on capping its population at 10 million. Called, without irony, the Sustainability Initiative. My essay in the Green European Journal's summer edition traces this (il)logic it: Too Many, Too Few: Malthusianisation and the Politics of Population Anxiety. Link in comments
The way societies measure and imagine populations profoundly shapes which futures become politically possible.
Our summer edition, Life Lines: Navigating Demographic Shifts, is out now.
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Adjusting to the new demographic reality requires that we pivot away from productivity and growth, and towards care for one another and for the planet.
Snapped this leaving physics ANU Tuesday night. Venus and Jupiter. #ANUDailyJoy
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How everything went so wrong at the ANU.
The sample sizes differ, as do the rate of non-responses between 2020 and 2025 it appears.
Lots of talk of life satisfaction in Australia being worse now than during COVID. I hate to be the bearer of bad news/reality, but it’s a beat up. There’s NO appreciable difference between 2020 and 2025 rates. Decline since 2014 is a worry though. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...
Masturbation and smartphones aren’t reducing sex and babies. Don’t listen to the lawn mowing guy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Is the world headed for a human catastrophe with declining birth rates? theconversation.com/birth-rates-...
If we are to counter medical misogyny, women can no longer be treated as unreliable witnesses of their own experience 👈🏽
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A damning report by Australia's audit office makes explosive revelations about the Australian National University's financial management.
Rather than an exploding overpopulation bomb, the world faces an economic and social implosion due to lacking supports to help raise much-wanted children.
The history of gynaecology fuses innovation, authority and violation – and radical surgery is not the unavoidable answer to suffering
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Measles killed Rebecca Archer's daughter Renae slowly and silently over a decade. She has a message for the growing number of parents hesitant to have their children vaccinated.
In a new book, Jim Penman argues our brains have been made insensitive to dopamine by over-exposure to sex, porn, social media, gambling, drugs, alcohol, caffeine and many other things
