POPULATION PROBLEMS

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32564, 25 March 1971, Page 9

POPULATION PROBLEMS

‘Migration no panacea’ (N.Z. Frew Ann —Copyright) MELBOURNE, March 24. The world’s future population problems would be too vast to be eased significantly by international migration on however heroic or desperate a scale, the former Australian Minister of Immigration, Mr Philip Lynch said. Mr Lynch was sworn in yesterday as Minister of Labour and National Service, told the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia that Australia’s present and prospective influence on the growth of the world’s population was negligible. “In the foreseeable future, over-populated and underpopulated countries will continue, with few exceptions, to remain that way,” he said. “The international implications of poverty also require consideration. Much is made, and very property made, of the sharp divisions between rich and poor nations. In fact, this division is accentuated by race—only Japan provides a substantial and quite outstanding exception to the rule that the white races comprise the world's rich minority. "Race has become another name for wealth, or for poverty. These are grave and substantial issues, transcending the boundaries of political philosophies.”