About Sheila Newman, social researcher
It is hard to label me conventionally because I really write in a new paradigm, where social and physical sciences come together.
For sociologists an early start-point for my work was Catton & Dunlap. My first research thesis compared population, energy and environment policies in Australia and France. For biologists and zoologists, my theory is compatible with Richard Dawkins' work.
artist
writer
journalist
evolutionary sociologist
anthropology
multi-species population science
systems sociologist
energy, land-tenure, land-use planning, population politics and political systems
democracy and environment
comparative national systems
history
wild-spaces and biodiversity
Zoological influences include: Dawkins, E.O. Wilson, Pimentel, Lyn Margulis
Editor/author at http://candobetter.net, a multi-author website for reform in democracy, environment, population, land use planning and energy policy. We welcome new authors there and book reviews
Another page: http://independent.academia.edu/SheilaNewman
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The Demography, Territory Law Series will consist of four books:
Demography, Territory & Law: Rules of Animal and Human Populations (Published)
Demography, Territory and Law 2: Land-tenure and the Origins of Capitalism in Britain (Published)
Demography, Territory and Law 3: Land-tenure and the Origins of Democracy
in France (Due 2016)
Demography, Territory and Law 4: After Napoleon (Due 2017)
Demography, Territory & Law: Rules of Animal and Human Populations
BOOK ONE of FOUR in a series exploring population, economy and politics using radical new interpretations of evolutionary theory. How different land tenure systems may have very different outcomes for human beings and the other creatures we share the planet with. How one system can launch us into industrial capitalism and the insatiable demands of ever faster growth, dooming us to overpopulation and poverty, whereas the other system can promote steady-state economies, equity and equality. One chapter comprehensively reviews theories of human population dynamics. Two chapters look at impact on fertility opportunities of the Westermarck Effect and incest avoidance in non-human species. A final chapter compares these with kinship restrictions and non-sale of land in Pacific Islander and other traditional social systems. Subsequent books compare Britain with continental Europe, but this book helps to understand the demographic and political problems of societies after colonisation and development.
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Demography, Territory and Law2: Land-tenure and the Origins of Capitalism in Britain
Preview
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The Final Energy Crisis
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Sheila Newman, (Ed.) The Final Energy Crisis2nd Edition, Pluto Press, UK, 2008. This is a book of articles by scientists and an economist on energy resources, technology, prospects. It explores future scenarios with oil depletion in Australia, France, and Japan. Introduction - In The Beginning PART I: MEASURING OUR PREDICAMENT Introduction 1. Views From Hubbert's Peak, by Sheila Newman 2. Prediction Of World Peak Oil Production, by Seppo A Korpela (Ohio State University) 3. Appendix To Prediction Of World Oil Production, by Seppo A Korpela (Ohio State University) 4. The Assessment And Importance Of Oil Depletion, by Colin J Campbell 5. Coal Resources Of The World, by Seppo A Korpel (Ohio State University) PART II: GEOPOLITICS Introduction: Geodestinies And Geodeterminism, by Sheila Newman 6. The Caspian Chimera, by Colin J Campbell 7. Update To The Caspian Chimera, by Sheila Newman 8. Battle Of The Titans, by Mark Jones 9. Dark Continent, Black Gold, by Andrew Mckillop 10. The Chinese Car Bomb, by Andrew Mckillop 11. Venezuela, Chavez & Latin-American Oil On The World Stage, by Sheila Newman PART III: THE BIG PICTURE - FALSE SOLUTIONS, HOPES AND FEARS Introduction 12. No Choice But International Energy Transition, by Andrew Mckillop 13. Population, Energy And Economic Growth, The Moral Dilemma, by Ross Mccluney (University of Central Florida) 14. Renewable Energy Limits, by Ross Mccluney (University of Central Florida) 15. Peak Soil, by Alice Friedemann 16. Notes On Terra Preta, by Sheila Newman 17. Nuclear Fission Power Options, by Sheila Newman 18. Fusion Illusions, by Michael Dittmar (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich) 19. Geothermal, by Sheila Newman PART IV After Oil Introduction 20. France And Australia After Oil, by Sheila Newman 21. North Korea: The Limits Of Fossil Energy-Based Agricultural Systems - What North Korea Tells Us About Our Future, by Antony Boys (Tohoku University, Japan) 22. How Will Japan Feed Itself Without Fossil Energy?, by Antony Boys (Tohoku University, Japan) 23. The Simpler Way, by Ted Trainer (University of New South Wales) 24. In The End: Thermodynamics And The Necessity Of Protecting The Natural World, by Sheila Newman Short Glossary Notes On Contributors Index Reviews
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The Growth Lobby in Australia and its Absence in France
Masters by Research Thesis in Environmental Sociology. 248 pages plus endnotes, references and appendices
The Relationship between the
Property Development and Housing
Industries and Immigration Policy
in Australia and France. Chapters on history of oil economics in France and Australia. Whitlam government policy on energy resources, population, housing and development.
ABSTRACT
This thesis compares population policy and demographic outcomes in France and Australia from 1945 taking into consideration projections to 2050. These features are analysed using a theoretical approach derived from James Q. Wilson and Gary Freeman, flagging focused benefits/costs and diffuse benefits/costs of population growth,
including growth fueled by immigration. This analysis is framed by the New Ecological Paradigm developed by Dunlap and Catton.
The oil shock of 1973 is identified as a major turning point where French and Australian policy directions and demographic trends diverge, notably on immigration.
It is established that in both countries there was a will for population stabilisation and energy conservation, which succeeded in France. In Australia, however, a strong, organised growth lobby over-rode this Malthusian tendency.
A major force for growth lay in the speculative property development and housing industries. The specific
qualities of the Australian land development planning and housing system facilitated land speculation. Speculative opportunity and profits were increased by population growth and, with decreasing fertility rates, the industries concerned relied increasingly on high immigration rates. In France, to the contrary, the land development planning
and housing industries had no similar dependency on immigration and, since the oil shock, have adapted to a declining population growth rate.
The author concludes that France has a relatively Malthusian economy and that Australia has a relatively Cornucopian one. These observations may be extrapolated respectively to non-English speaking Western European States and to English Speaking Settler States.
Speculative benefits from population growth/immigration are illustrated by demonstrating a relationship between ratcheting property price inflation in high overseas immigration cities in Australia and the near absence of this inflation in low growth areas. In contrast this ratcheting effect is absent in France and French cities where population growth and immigration have little influence on the property market.
The research suggests that speculative benefits of high population growth have been magnified by globalisation of the property market and that these rising stakes are likely to increase the difficulty of population stabilisation and energy conservation under the Australian land development and planning system.
The thesis contains a substantial appendix analysing and comparing French and Australian demographic and energy use statistics.
Download entire thesis here without appendices.
Download entire thesis from Swinburne University research repository including appendices.
Note that the author's email address and website mentioned in the thesis are no longer extant. You may contact the author via candobetter.net.
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Artist Sheila Newman will be the artist-in-residence at Oak Hill Gallery in Mornington from Wednesday, July 31st to Tuesday, August 6th, 2024. This timely residency comes as the Victorian government prepares to impose significant population growth and high-rise development in the fragile and biodiverse region. Newman's exhibition will feature striking portraits of former M.P.
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Jenny Warfe delivered this submission and spoke to it verbally at Planning Panels Victoria, Frankston hearing on C160fran Ammendment. The Amendment would mandate population growth-engineering and a mega city in Frankston, at the head of the Mornington Peninsula, on Port Phillip Bay. Port Phillip Conservation Council (PPCC) Inc.
Currently Planning Panels Victoria is sitting in Frankston and hearing multiple objections to the State Government plans to force Frankston to absorb a continuously increasing number of new people, in order to provide profits to the Property Development and Finance oligarchy that has basically taken over much of government policy and planning in Victoria. We begin by publishing the summary of Sheila Newman's verbal submission to the Planning Panel given 4 July 2024, with her 
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Basically signals Victorian State Gov attempts to remove Local Governments by stealth: Taking over Council powers without consulting the electorate. Planning is the tool. Council writing to all other Vic Councils encouraging them to stand up to State Gov similarly.
Of more than 200 submissions to the 
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(The new words for this old song are by Quark and Neutrino.)
The property development and construction industry is having a lend of Australia: By promoting massive migration numbers, it keeps housing and land costs high and it keeps its own costs low.
Look at this footage and ask yourself why Australian PM Albanese just sent another 70 armoured vehicles to Ukraine. For what? There are no good answers, but Mr Albanese isn't likely to find himself with his legs blown off in Ukraine-Russia, struggling on his elbows for the shelter of the last tank, although that is where he and the other US-NATO supporters should all be sent.
As Australia agrees to host a second US military base among the 800 to 1000 US bases and installations round the world, it also stands almost silently by as the US pursues Julian Assange's extradition to the bowels of the bent and fractured US legal system. This appalling system is now poised to outlaw free speech indefinitely in the United States and wherever its tentacles reach around the globe.
Why did the David Hicks case attract so much public support in Australia, when Julian Assange’s apparently does not? The establishment press was still a lot freer in Australia then. It still covered anti-war protests, protest against the introduction of new terrorism laws, and even Hicks’s scandalous treatment by the Australian government. It’s not doing that for Assange.
"Clear need to improve the transparency and accountability of government decision-making in relation to armed conflict.' "Require a written statement to be published and tabled in the Parliament setting out the objectives of major military operations, the orders made and legal basis"; "Facilitate debate ..."
Video of speakers and informed discussion from a large Australian audience of activists re Australia's mounting involvement in US-NATO warmongering and costly and inappropriate weapons purchase. The Stop Aukus movement came out of a coalition of anti-war movements, notably IPAN, and features Australians who have never stopped being involved in our anti-war movement, and who have rich experience and knowledge to offer other Australians whose education, via media or schools, has been lacking.
In her interview with the Russian ambassador to Australia, 7.30 Report 21 March 2023, 
At a protest for Julian Assange, which commenced outside the Victorian State Library at 12:00pm on Sunday 28 September, protestors demanded that the Australian government use the power vested in it as a sovereign national government to make British Prime Minister Liz Truss end the illegal imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange.
As a result of western crimes against Iraq, a person continues to serve time in prison. "Strangely enough, that person is not any of those who initiated the offensive on Iraq. Instead, he's the man behind exposing American crimes in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay: A whistleblower called Julian Assange." Marzieh Hashemi, journalist and presenter of Secret Files.
Julian Assange has been imprisoned through barbaric abuse by powerful people of their positions in government and the law, and through the almost total disorganisation of ordinary people. People's ability to defend themselves at law and find crowd support in England nearly 400 years ago was often more sophisticated and engaged than our own. A famous case was when, in May 1649, Cromwell arraigned John Lilburne for high treason and incitement of Leveller mutinies in the New Model army.
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