Population growth figures

[Aaron Sice]

Sure you can't have an open door, but I'd swap screened immigrants for yobbos and full time surfers anytime.

amen to that brother! praise the lord!

australians in general need a swift kick up the beeeehind.

 

[MichaelW]

Here's a link to an article in the SMH from a few days back with a nice graphic showing the rates of growth around the world with some good supporting narrative:

Growth head and shoulders above India

AUSTRALIA is poised to be the world's fastest growing industrialised nation over the next four decades, with a rate of population growth higher even than India.

It means that if the G20 leaders gathering in Pittsburgh this week were to line up according to expected population growth, Kevin Rudd would be in second place, standing only behind Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah who can expect his population to grow by 74 per cent by 2050.

Japan's Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, would be last in line, with his population expected to shrink by a quarter.

Australia is projected to grow at a rate of 65 per cent, well above the global average, a survey by the Washington-based private research body, the Population Reference Bureau, shows.

The population is already growing at the fastest rate since post-war migration and the baby boom saw it explode in the 1950s and '60s , figures released yesterday by the Bureau of Statistics show.

Cheers,
Michael

 

[topcropper]

To put this in another perspective, the govt is suggesting our population will grow just over 1% per year....

1.1% compounded over 40 years based on current 22 mill is just under 35mill

TIm

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 right now, we will hit 49 million people in 2050, or just 40 years.

This won't happen. Our current growth rate is unsustainable. Besides the little cheer squad on this forum that thinks it's great, I haven't heard any positive views from the general community, and remembering that most people aren't property investors. Most people are voters though. Most people just see skyrocketing property prices and traffic gridlock. Once the ramifications are rammed home of what this all means, one of the political parties will promise to bring this madness under control and will win an election on the issue.

There has been no commentary as to how transport will be provided, what jobs [besides services] that all these people will do to generate wealth for the country, where all the new power stations are being built, all the new dams that will be needed, and how all these people will be housed. And it goes without saying that the hardest hit will be the environment.


See ya's.

 

[VYBerlinaV8]

And who built most of the current infrastructure?
Immigrants!
They do all the unskilled jobs that the locals can't lower themselves to do.
While the yobbos bludge off the tax payers, the newly arrived are here, by large majority, to make something of themselves.
And they are happy to live in the dilapidated slums that some people on this forum provide as "accommodation". They will work and save for 10, 15 or 20 years to then pay market rate for those ratholes, giving your illusion that property never goes down.

I remember reading an article from an SMH microfiche in the library written in the 50s stating that the "Italians and Greeks who come out to this country threaten the Australian way of life with their different culture blah blah blah"
What way of life? Working the least possible and then getting drunk at the pub?
Eating food they would've give to the pigs?
They too were going to "ruin it all", and look how ruined it's turned out.
And those that did'nt work in infrastructure taught the locals how to farm and use the land to grow fruit & vegies.

Sure you can't have an open door, but I'd swap screened immigrants for yobbos and full time surfers anytime.

Agreed 100%. And many Aussies would do well to remember it.

 

[WinstonWolfe]

For those who are interested, although population growth is still rising at a good clip, the rate of growth has slowed in the last 12 mths.

 

[WinstonWolfe]

And who built most of the current infrastructure?
Immigrants!
They do all the unskilled jobs that the locals can't lower themselves to do.
While the yobbos bludge off the tax payers, the newly arrived are here, by large majority, to make something of themselves.
And they are happy to live in the dilapidated slums that some people on this forum provide as "accommodation". They will work and save for 10, 15 or 20 years to then pay market rate for those ratholes, giving your illusion that property never goes down.

The reason locals won't lower themselves to do unskilled jobs is because of a socialist inspired politically correct nanny state.

2nd and 3rd gen Australians are just as likely to become bludging locals as 4th and 5th gen.
In fact, ethnic group unemployment rates are higher than the national average, especially since Australia outsourced manufacturing to Asia.


OVERSEAS BORN UNEMPLOYED PERSONS,
Country of birth by year of arrival - July 2009

Joblessness higher among migrants

Western Australia
There were differences in labour market performance between those born in non-English speaking countries and people born in main-English speaking countries. Unemployment rates in 2009 for these groups were 6.7 percent and 4.8 percent respectively.

 

[Deltaberry]

This won't happen. Our current growth rate is unsustainable. Besides the little cheer squad on this forum that thinks it's great, I haven't heard any positive views from the general community, and remembering that most people aren't property investors.

Oh I almost forgot, most people are also yobbos and bludgers or at least, relatively speaking, financially irresponsible.

The people who fit into the 'most people' category I know still somehow manage to spend 70% of their net income while living at home and the moan about how expensive that 350sqm house within 10km radius is... be good to remind the 'most people' that most in Asia/Europe they live in apartments and don't own.

Give a bunch of ill-informed people the right to vote ... yea good one, probably can't name the current Treasurer, let alone Finance Minister. Oh hang on, aren't they the same thing?

 

[redwing]

According to the ABS

Australian population increased by 1.8% during 2012, returning to the same growth seen 3 years ago.

Western Australia increased the most at 3.5%, which is the highest of any state and reached a population of 2.47 million in December 2012.

Western Australia also had the highest population growth the past ten years, increasing by 27.6% (by 534,100 people).

Tasmania won the award for the lowest population rate increase at 0.1% to reach 512,4000.

Bjorn Jarvis, Director of ABS Demography stated the increase in population is mostly driven from net overseas migration.

Net overseas migration increased Australia’s population by 17% (235,900) in 2012 from 2011. Natural population increased by 4% in 2012, which is the largest increase seen in four years.