Stephen Saunders

• Stephen Saunders is a former public servant, consultant and Canberra Times reviewer. He has consulted on environmental issues for the Australian Crime Commission and the National Water Commission. His report for the Australian Population Research Institute is ‘Why do we have a big Australia?’

Articles written by Stephen Saunders (32)

• 25 July 2025 | How Western wokeness weakens the West but empowers China
• 19 December 2024 | Water planning 101: Stabilise the population
• 15 November 2024 | Melbourne dealing with green amenity versus endless growth
• 18 July 2024 | A literary giant's fall: Alice Munro's Faustian trade-off
• 10 April 2024 | The King of Australia will easily outlast Albanese's Labor
• 12 January 2024 | Fifty years of ‘Grievous Angel’: Gram Parsons’ cosmic country music
• 27 May 2023 | 'Good Humor': Saint Etienne snyth-pop album turns 25
• 22 January 2023 | Treasury tacks 'well-being' onto their endless growth framework
• 14 January 2023 | Barbara Keith’s timeless singer-songwriter album turns 50
• 5 November 2022 | Population 'mistruths' in the Budget
• 15 September 2022 | Australia the royal doormat: Time to give the Palace the boot
• 2 September 2022 | Jobs Summit sending us back onto the Big Australia hamster wheel
• 8 April 2022 | Budget 2022 embraces the environmental folly of Big Australia 2.0
• 8 March 2022 | A safer way to ditch the monarchy
• 12 December 2021 | Badfinger’s Straight Up album rocks 50 years later
• 28 October 2021 | Perrottet pushes mass migration harder than Morrison
• 1 October 2021 | BOOK REVIEW: The Accidental Prime Minister by Annika Smethurst
• 15 August 2021 | Songwriter Gene Clark shines 50 years of his ‘White Light’
• 24 May 2021 | No opposition to post-COVID mass migration plan
• 18 April 2021 | Rock diva Tracy Nelson’s glorious gospel album turns 50
• 17 March 2021 | On Christian Porter: Boys’ schools perpetuate parliamentary boys’ club
• 14 February 2021 | Scott Morrison must find a way to make net-zero targets viable
• 15 January 2021 | Palace letters: Murdoch helps Morrison to mug Australian history
• 4 December 2020 | The Budget confirms Morrison wants to reboot mass migration
• 19 September 2020 | Rocking through the pandemic: The value of music lyrics
• 28 July 2020 | Job-ready Graduates Package inequitable and just poor economics
• 19 June 2020 | Scott Morrison's population plan: Snapping back to a 'Big Australia'
• 15 December 2019 | Morrison torches Environment Department
• 15 November 2019 | We need to tackle climate change – but also endless growth
• 1 September 2019 | Labor's immigration pitch falls short
• 2 June 2019 | “Congestion busting” just got harder: Scott Morrison accelerates population rush
• 17 April 2019 | Morrison and Shorten's Big Australia: The overpopulation problem