Make up your mind Malcolm, do you want to defeat the Anti Pops via scientific or ideological methods? If their analysis of population trends is, in your opinion wrong then that's your trump card, it's not necessary to prove or even discuss their motivations. "Racism" is impossible to substantiate therefore Anti Racism is an unscientific approach, "inability to read statistics=racism" or "anyone who takes an unscientific approach to the immigration debate is racist".
To incorporate it into your argument is to play exactly the same game as the Anti-Pops because stoking fears of "Racism" among the Hoople Heads is just as meddlesome as investing in them a fear of "overpopulation".
Anti Racists are just the reverse image of Racists, whichever way you look at the picture, either in positive or negative you can still only see ugliness, bigotry and bad character.

Arh, the ol' 'racist' tag toward those who disagree. Well, two can play that game. I charge Mr King with 'bigotry' for being intolerant of opposing opinions.

Nevertheless, bringing in large amounts of migrants when there are already high numbers of unemployed people only fosters resentment, because it is the unemployed and the working poor who have to compete for work against the new migrants. If job security was more assured amongst the working classes, then a certain amount of immigration would be acceptable to them. Don't expect the Australian poor to be accepting of large immigration when it is them who have to compete for living wages.

Additionally, migrants often take up residency in those suburbs where the working poor reside. Social cohesion or a sense of community is already something hard to achieve in cities; by importing people who have values and world views contrary to those working classes, further division is created.
This division can be manageable while a sense of job security is assured, but if unemployment becomes too high and an underclass grows, who do you think will be targeted?

Anyway, it's probably just easier to call me 'racist' and forget about these problems

I did not know that Bindi Irwin was a racist.

You learn something new every day, thanks Malcolm!

This article is totally offensive and driven by pure ideology. It's offensive causing us 'anti-pops' (our motivation is the betterment of mankind through stabilised or lower numbers of people, as well as preservation of other species) and offensive causing us racists. (I've been working on this for four decades and I have children and grandchildren of every hue.)

Of course we know there are temporary migrants in Australia (too many in fact). It's a concern because but they are the biggest source of permanent migrants. It's population though that matters, whether it comes from migration or natural increase. And according to the latest figures from ABS 3101.0, our population growth rate of 1.6 per cent (a Third World rate)was made up of natural increase (42%) and net overseas migration (immigration minus emigration - 58%). Natural increase should come down if fertility stays below replacement (2.1) but net migration can be enlarged at the whim of government. Unfortunately, in the most recent quarter listed (year to June 2012), both are still increasing. Natural increase (151,300 people) was 800 higher than the natural increase recorded for the year ended 30 June 2011. And net overseas migration (208,300 people) was 38,100 higher than the net overseas migration recorded for the previous year.For those of us who would like to stabilise or reduce our overall numbers, we're going the wrong way! That may be just fine for Malcolm King - he's probably got a vested interest in population growth. What is it Malcolm? Real estate perhaps?

Amazing - a Bindi anti-population story just before Australia Day. Who would have thunk it? I'm surprised the Unstable Population Front of Judea hasn't endorsed Bindi. It would get her as poor old Dick Smith in the papers for a day.