Then, considering population growth's contribution to the housing supply shortage, can you elaborate how the Greens population policy section below, translates into something actionable......
Some question to help:
- what popn growth rate do the Greens want and why haven't they spelt it out?
- do they want popn caps for the capitals....if so what are they?
- when they cap a capital's population, what criteria will they use to determine who gets to live in the city and who has to go?
- what cap do they want on mining and agricultural production and exports?
- what's their preferred annual humanitarian migrant intake rate, with and without global climate change?
- why the focus on helping women overseas with family planning, when it is the men doing the raping?
- what practical strategy do the Greens possess to effectively increase the understanding of African men regarding their reproductive responsibilities? And do they seriously think this will reduce the incidence of rape, in lawless states run by the blokes with the most guns?
IMHO, what's even more hysterical than the Melbourne media's obsession with property, is the Green's attitude towards mass humanitarian migration due to climate change.
from
Greens Population Policy
Goals
The Australian Greens want:
- reduction of Australia’s use of natural resources to a level that is sustainable and socially just.
- recognition that use of resources in production for export is as damaging to the environment as production for domestic consumption.
- human settlements which are:
- designed and built to minimise environmental harm and maximise social well-being; and
- located in areas where their ecological impact is minimised.
Measures
The Australian Greens will:
- support, through extensive community consultation, a population policy directed towards ecological sustainability in the context of global social justice.
- work to achieve a sustainable relationship between humans and the environment by taking action:
- in Australia, including planning, consultation and a whole of government approach, to improve equity in consumption levels and resource and technology use; and
- globally, to improve social and economic equity and promote programs that empower women.
- implement the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action as endorsed by the Australian Government, by:
- increasing our contribution to programs that empower women and increase their access to a wide range of safe family planning options; and<
- increasing our overseas aid budget to 0.7% of GNP by 2010 as recommended by the United Nations, directed to the poorest, which often include women, with a focus on clean water and sanitation, education and high quality accessible health services, including sexual and reproductive health services.
- ensure that Australian family planning programs, both domestically and overseas, are adequately funded to deliver services in the context of reproductive health programs which increase the power of girls and women to determine their own reproductive lives, and increase the understanding of men of their reproductive responsibilities.
- prepare contingency plans for possible large scale humanitarian migration as a result of climate change.