ABSTRACT
Graeme Hugo was a population geographer, his academic training having been both in geography and demography. He was utterly committed, as well, to working together with policymakers by providing them with the best possible evidence about the populations of concern to them and drawing out for them the implications of that evidence. Hugo documented over many years the settlement patterns of the Australian population, ensuring that the spatial nature of data from the population census was made very evident to a range of publics. In any Australian university library there will be a set of Atlases of the Australian People, giving cartographic presentation to the data of the population censuses of the 1980s and 1990s, for many of which Graeme Hugo was the senior author. Hugo, the eminent population geographer, was a superb ambassador for the discipline of geography, and his intellectual and personal contributions will long be remembered and celebrated.
