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I dunno about that Winston. The average person is getting bigger, and I'm 20 kilos more than I should be. But we are getting bigger all over. I remember 5 years ago at the local rugby match, they had the legendary 1965 team in for a 40 year reunion after winning the premiership way back...

Nice post Graemsay. Is it a ponzi scheme, or a pyramid scheme? More a pyramid scheme which requires ever more people coming in at the bottom to hold it up. I also agree about the pension and retirement age. It is inevitable that it has to increase, and it will happen naturally. As people are...

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Anyone who can do maths can work out where the population will go using historic growth rates. When we were a big empty place we needed high growth rates. As we reach the limits we should slow them down. Now is when growth rates should be slowing, not increasing. Peter Ridd gives a good...

Well, that's just my opinion isn't it. We got 300,000 new residents last year and our growth rate was above 2%. This gives us 50 million by 2050 if that growth was continued. That is too much as far as I'm concerned. To get to the 36 million by 2050 that Kev was on about the immigration level...

I've no idea what you've got against discussing this issue. After the possible GFC 2, and a possible change of government, The cutting back of the countries population growth would be the next biggest issue effecting resi property investors. If this issue is not worth discussing, then what...

Who says anything about stopping immigration? This is all about cutting it back to a more sensible level. I'd have thought that China or India or any other place would be happy that we weren't taking so many of their doctors and skilled workers. Why would any country object if we cut back...

Did he? I don't remember him saying he was going to double the immigration rate if elected in 2007. Julia probably does believe in a big Australia, or maybe not? Who knows? As handy andy says, it's electioneering. They have thown Kev out, and he is going to cop the blame for all the stuff...

That's it..??. Your onto something here IV. Must go and buy in the countries with the highest growth rates to get the best real estate returns. I must go and buy in Niger, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Burundi, Kuwait, Gaza Strip, Ethiopia, Mayotte, Western Sahara, and the Democratic...

The unemployment rate is as low as it's been for decades. You must be getting carried away a bit. Take a deep breath. I don't see the average Aussie suburb turning into a seething mass of bludgers needing immigrants to do the work? Where do you live? We are a democracy. We can choose...

:eek: Australia needs agricultural production, as it also needs our mineral and energy exports. It's not like we produce anything much else the world needs and we have to pay for imports with something. London? Dunno. But the Poms at least can grow half their food requirements and import the...

So we dam these magnificent rivers so that people on the other side of the globe can keep breeding as much as they want? Stuff that. Leave the rivers as they are. If city people want bigger populations and think it's so darn great, then cram em into the cities even tighter. People live in...

What the hell are you talking about? 50 million people? There is only 12,000 hectares of farm land up there and it's been a total disaster so far. The soil is crap, but that's the best dirt they could find there. The soil is basically just holding the plant up. All the fertility has to be added...

Im against a 'Big Australia' for numerous reasons. The main one is economically. These hundreds of thousands of new residents aren't coming here to work in industry in massive industrial areas churning out machinery, electronic equipment, chemicals and textiles, or pharmacuticals to export to...