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That's exactly right Tim. It's only 1.1% compound growth to get us to 35 million in 2050. However our population growth last year was just over 2%. There was 500,000 imigrants coming in. http://ibtimes.com.au/articles/20090925/our-population-boom.htm At 2% growth rates that we have...

What's a disgrace about that? Are you saying we should have a population of 60 million to consume all our food? Or are you saying we should cut agricultural output so we just feed our 22 million and not export any? Agriculture accounts for about 15% of our exports, so what replaces that if...

You may be right, and they are definately smart. If that's the case, then we should be thankfull. The fact that our commodities have held up in price duing the GFC is why Australia has done well. I believe though that if China had an excess of commodities they'd be using their own. They...

How are we selling too much dirt? [as in coal, iron ore, metals, etc]. We are still running a current account deficit. We are still importing more goods than we export on average. It's our dirt and energy we export that make up the majority of our exports. We have no other choice. We have...

We do have a say. We all vote. The opinions I'm hearing from people everywhere are that they are dumbfounded that we could be doing something so stupid as pile another 14 million people into this place. Governments have only one objective. And it's not to do a great job running the place...

I'm completely against this. Anyway, if it happens it does. What properties will go up the most? I think most of the people will be crammed into the existing cities, and especially Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney's going to 7 million according to one report I read this morning. So it's a...

Here's an article,.... http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26089820-421,00.html I find it interesting that there are 10 comments from people after/below the article. 9 out of 10 are against and one neutral. I wonder if this is reflective of most of the population? This could backfire...

This really concerns me. This is a property investment forum, and this massive increase in people will be a great thing for property prices. There is no two ways about it. It's everything else that is a concern to me. We are being fed a pile of propaganda that we need this sort of...