POPULATION AND MIGRATION
BOOK OF THE DAY
The Myth of Open Spaces. By W. D. Forsyth. Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford i University Press. 326 pp. (17/6.) Mr Forsyth reaches the broad conclusion that the era of "unprecedented European emigration” has closed. Consequently, Australian expansion policy, which must first abandon the theory that cheap or free virgin land is sufficiently abundant, well situated, and productive to give large scope for fresh pioneer scit'oment, must also reconcile itself to the conditions in which oven small-scale immigration will be possible and on which it can be aclwanlageously developed. The advantage will be determined, largely, by internal policies. Mr Forsyth acutely analyses the economic factors In these. His analysis Is the more acute because he does not allow them to obscure the truth, fundamentally a social rather than an economic one, that “there will finally be no escape from the real population problem of the British Commonwealth, which is not migration but fertility,”
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23813, 5 December 1942, Page 4
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