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Fact Sheet 11

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Is the Territory population too small for Statehood?

  • Population is not a barrier to equality and fairness.

  • The population of the Northern Territory reached 200 000 for the first time in 2005.

  • The population of the Northern Territory represents approximately 1% of the Australian population.

  • The population of Tasmania on attaining Statehood in 1901 was recorded as less than 172 000.

  • The population of Western Australia on attaining Statehood in 1901 is recorded as around 188 000.

  • The population of Australia in 1901 is recorded as 3.78 million people.

  • The population of Tasmania was approximately 4% of the Australian population at the time it attained Statehood.

  • The Northern Territory's recorded population has increased about 40 fold since 1901.

  • Proportionally that is a much faster growth rate than the States.

  • The population of the US Territory of Alaska was approximately 138 000 in 1950.

  • Alaska became the 49th United State in 1959.

  • The population of Alaska today is approximately 626 000 representing about one quarter of one percent of a total US population of around 294 million people.

  • The Northern Territory has a young dynamic population of energetic people living across 1.3 million square kilometres of land mass occupying one sixth of Australia.

  • The people of the Northern Territory should not be denied Statehood on the basis of how many people may live here.

 
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