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© T. M. Whitmore
Last Time SE Asia•European colonization
•Contemporary population issues in SE Asia
•Country details in SE Asia
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Today•SE Asia country details: Indonesia
& Philippines •Australia & New Zealand
Physical GeographyPopulation and density issues Historical, economic, and cultural
Immigration and Maori & Aboriginal rights
•Papua New Guinea & the Pacific realm (Oceania)
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Indonesia
•~ 221 m pop (~ ½ of total in SE Asia )
•Very diverse country (despite being 85% Muslim) Literally hundreds of local cultures> 17,000 islands => hard to
administer (but most pop lives in Java and Sumatra)
Separatist groups in Papua, Aceh, and the Moluccas (and formerly in E Timor)
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Indonesia
•Population density a problem in Java > 1,500 per sq mi ~ like a cityGovt. solutions include “voluntary”
resettlement of Javanese to outlying islands and Borneo
• Jakarta — giant city of SE Asia > 8m
•Economy still dominated by agriculture, but assembly manufacturing and oil gaining
•Economics hit hard by Ache tsunami
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Philippines
•~ 85 m pop
•Mostly Roman Catholic (Muslim in south) thus odd in this groupFragmented like Indonesia into thousands of islands
Active rebel groups in S
•Population growth a main issue r ~ 2.3%/yr
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Australia & New Zealand •Size and location
•Physical GeographyClimateVegetation and physical features
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Population in Australia & New Zealand
•AustraliaLow populationLarge area => low density
•New ZealandSmall pop but small area
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History & Settlement of Australia
•Aboriginal inhabitants
•European entry & impact
•Core area of settlementEither side of Great Dividing Range
Major cities here: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide
Vast majority of pop is urban ~ 85%
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Australia: Export-based primary sector economy mostly
•Minerals and ores — iron, copper, coal, nickel, etc a major supplier
•Agricultural animals beef, lambs, sheep, wool (20-30% or total for world)
•Wheat: 4th largest producer
•“Import substitution” local economy
•Spatially economy is like a donut
•Problem: to keep up with high growth mostly industrial economies in Far East
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New Zealand•Native settlement
People of Polynesian origins called Maori settled in ~ 1000 AD
Bulk of Maori settlement on N island•European exploration and settlement
Tasman in late 1600sBritish influence dates from Cook in
1769/70•European and Maori encounters
Initial impact was a prolonged and bloody war
A second impact was the effect of disease
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New Zealand•Transformations by European settlers
Extinctions: e.g., moas Introduction of cattle, pigs, and sheepHuge deforestation
•Population and settlementMost settlement is on N island~ 4m pop (sheep ~ 25m and cattle ~
8m~ 85% urbanperipheral settlement pattern like
Australia
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New Zealand•Economy
Traditional ties to Great BritainAs the UK joined the EC and preferential trade was stopped
Does not have a rich mineral resource base – animal agriculture base
Modern economic ties are to various Pacific rim countries
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Immigration, Maori, & Aboriginal rights•Australian aboriginal rights
Court cases have given economic rights
Backlash by right wing political parties
Aborigines are by far the worst off of groups
•Maori issuesincreasingly demanding traditional
rights to fishing etc.~ 10% of pop is Maoriby 2010 they may be 25% of pop
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© John Wiley & Sons
AboriginalLand claims
N. TerritoryAboriginal lands
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Immigration, Maori, & Aboriginal rights II
•Asian immigration in AustraliaUntil 1970s Australia maintained a “Whites only” immigration policy
changed in the 1970s and a large number of Asians have immigrated to Australia
now only ~ 1/3 of Australians are of UK background
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