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1. What is a primary source when doing research? What is a secondary source? Which one is better? When do you use these types of sources? A primary source is a source which is from the time you are studying. a secondary source is a source past the time of the studied period. a primary source is better and more accurate than a secondary source. We use these types of sources when we study an event in history.
2. What is a primary source for finding population data for Australia? Why? A primary for finding the population of Australia is government sites and using graphs, they are reliable and they conduct the senses of the population.
3. What is the population of Australia? 22,638,341 people.
4. What is the 'growth rate' of Australia for 2010? 1.6%
5. How many 'new' Australians were there in 2010? 345,500
6. How many of the 'new' Australians were born in Australia and how many are immigrants? Born = 42 570 immigrants = 108,100
7. Which state had the greatest growth in population for 2010? Queensland
8. What changes have you noticed in your area that could be related to growth in population? That there are many people who are coming into our areas.
9. Is it good that Australia's population continues to grow? No.
10. When, in history, has Australia NEEDED the population to grow? Why? Where did these people come from? Since federation in 1901. Because they were going to be invaded by the Japanese and so we needed as many people as possible to survive the invasion. They all came from the Pacific.
