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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1944
Page
1
The Hon. A. A. Calwell warns Australia faces population decline without action. He cites the National Health and Medical Research Committee on falling births, ageing population, and future shortages of mothers, urging policies to raise fertility and counter imagined immigration gains.
The piece notes rising birth costs tied to first births and a marriage rate around 12 per thousand, with wartime marriages prevalent. It warns increases may be temporary and argues that sustaining 1914 birth surplus could add nearly a million people over 20 years.
While Mr 8 W Thomson BDS on service with the RAAF Mr 5 Boyle Dentist of Jamestown will visit GLADSTONE monthly and may be consulted at Mr Wurm's Chemist Shop on fourth Monday in each month 10 am to 4 pm
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