Any viable political party which offers an option for stabilising our out of control population explosion and then reducing it to a sustainable level will have my full support.
Which leaves only this party.

Every now and then some popular character shows up with some popularist ideas. (Joh for Canberra, one nation) And history show that being popular just doesn't cut it! What this country needs is a visionary leader willing to buck the tide and take the nation with him/her!

And given the latest suite of policies, They have such a leader in Malcolm Turnbull! Simply pulling the plug on essential migration is just plain dumb, and just what you'd expect of a dangerous ideologue with a locked and bolted mindset and simplistic ideas?

For heaven's sake, we are a nation of immigrants, with our best days in front of us! We just don't need to start cutting immigration numbers. What we need is decentralisation and ensuring the infrastructure backlog is a thing of the past!
Rhrosty.

ateday, another bunch of naive, idealistic fools who are splitting the vote yet further. VOTE ALA.

Rhosty, why do you hate your grand daughters so much? Kevin Polly Waffle Turnbull is 100% evil, even worse than Slick Willie Shorten. i will preference Lie-Bore ahead of the LNP if Tony Abbott is not brought back.

Rhrosty,

The problem with the infrastructure backlog is that a new resident immediately needs the full complement of infrastructure right away, roads, schools, hospitals, sewage works, power plants, the lot. Assuming that infrastructure has an average lifespan of 50 years, a country with a stable population would need to spend 2% of the real cost of building the infrastructure in the first place just on necessary replacements and maintaining standards. If your population is growing at 2%, as ours was a few years ago, mostly due to immigration and births to recent migrants, then you need to spend twice as much. At the same time, your tax base has only gone up by 2%. The newcomers will (usually) end up contributing enough to pay their share, but it may take decades. At the same time more and more people are pouring in. No wonder we have an $700 billion infrastructure backlog.

Here is what Bob Carr (former NSW Premier) said in a interview in The Saturday Paper (7/11/2015):

“We’re a developed country with a Third World rate of population growth,” says former New South Wales premier Bob Carr, one of the relatively few in this country’s business/political elite who is not a spruiker for “Big Australia”.

“My government was spending on non-Olympics infrastructure at real levels two-thirds higher than the average for the 1980s, but force-fed population growth runs so strongly that no government can catch up.

“With population growth this rapid it is literally impossible to keep pace with infrastructure. You cannot possibly maintain spending at adequate levels to meet the huge challenge this represents.”

Dear Rhrosty,

Malcolm Turnbull is just the other side of the Tony Abbott coin.

MANDARIN, HINDI, or.....?

With only 24 million people, just a boat ride away from the world's two largest countries, way past time to encourage citizens to take up a language - and prepare for the inevitable.

If Mandarin or Hindi don't excite,try Bahasa. Or perhaps Arabic?