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Population gold : Comments

By Dilan Thampapillai, published 5/8/2010

Gillard's small Australia and Australia's demographic time-bomb amount to an ageing population and a diminishing taxpayer base.

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I read Ozzie's comments as being a bit threatening. He basically says it will be fantastic once a certain group of people are "scared and intimidated."
Posted by David Jennings, Friday, 6 August 2010 11:42:40 AM
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David, do you think someone could be scared and intimidated to express a point of view if others were suggesting they lose their job for doing so?

"Personally, I struggle to see how Monash University can continue to employ Bob Birrell, who argues against foreign students, whilst still accepting money from foreign students!"
Posted by David Jennings, Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:14:50 AM

Even University tutors should understand the concept of academic freedom.
Posted by ozzie, Friday, 6 August 2010 10:23:36 PM
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Agree with David. Intimidation suggests violence. You said that you would be happy when "these people will be the ones that feel intimidated to express their views." Its a bit threatening ... full stop.

Suggesting that an organisation might want to think twice about retaining an employee who openly campaigns against the best interests of that organisation is just common sense.
Posted by jjplug, Friday, 6 August 2010 11:48:10 PM
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Suggesting that an organisation might want to think twice about retaining an employee who openly campaigns against the best interests of that organisation is just common sense.
jjplug,
Ah, but is that organisation in the best interest of the community ?
Posted by individual, Saturday, 7 August 2010 5:33:54 AM
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The growth cultists love ozzie. To the growth cultist, anyone not totally enraptured with the wonder of population growth is a miserable Marvin: White, stupid and unskilled, shuffling his way along the soup queue and resenting the world. This is the delusion they have, and ozzie seems happy to reinforce it.

In reality, a rapid rate of population growth is damaging to many. For example, my mother was the only lunch time patron at an inner city Thai restaurant yesterday. Next door was an award winning Indian restaurant which remained empty. What is happening is that rapid population growth creates a huge infrastructure burden. Government tries to recoup some of the public costs with heavy taxes on new housing, which in turn creates a supply crisis. This, together with the heavily corrupted development process which greatly limits the development rights of landowners, results in a large increase in housing costs and so reduces discretionary spending. This is happening now and is damaging small businesses.

As a medical practitioner, ozzie should know that reinforcing a delusion does not help a delusional person.
Posted by Fester, Saturday, 7 August 2010 9:27:24 AM
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RE: The winnowing out of malcontents who might speak at odds with the organisations best interests.

A lot depends on how you define “ the best interests” – of both the organisation, and the wider community.

Some educational institutions have already been implicated in lowering standards to better accommodate high paying, but lower performing, students--that can't be good for their long term best interests!
And many education institutions representatives have been lobbying hard for the govt to maintain generous backdoor routes to citizenship (because it makes their programs more marketable) -- not much confidence their in quality of teaching to atract, there!

Meanwhile thousands of competent Aussies can’t find places in the faculty of their choice, and thousands of Aussies can’t get entry to the careers they desire.

collateral damage arising from educational institutions focus on short tern profit?
Posted by Horus, Saturday, 7 August 2010 11:45:42 AM
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