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FEATURE: Failing Families, Vanishing Australians and the Welfare State

Barry Maley | 06 June 1990

Australia's fertility rate, like that of several other Western countries, has fallen well below the level needed to sustain the native-born population. In the first of a series of POLICY articles on fertility and the family, Barry Maley analyses the causes of this decline and argues the causes of this decline and argues for welfare reforms that would increase incentives for family formation and maintenance.

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