A good summary of our population problem.
Several steps could be taken to restore a healthy reproductive society to Australia. They all involve bringing our taxation system in line with the reality that the Australian nuclear family faces. Let procreation capable couples elect to be taxed as a unit at twice the amount applicable to half the total income less a fixed figure for each child supported.
For such couples no baby bonus nor child care or education support but allow child care cost and cost of travel to work as a deduction.
This would encourage people with high incomes to have more children who would be well resourced and discourage people of limited income ability from producing under- resourced children.
For people without children who complain that they are taxed unfairly I would point out that when they are old and need support it will be nurses, police, doctors, gardeners, housekeepers etc, brought up at the cost of the patriarchal nuclear family who will be providing that support.

According to the most recent census, there are now more women than men in Australia? Which ought to mean they decide everything? Not the least of which is the law o the land, or what (incubation) use their bodies are subject to!

And as such, the rate at which each individual women gives birth must remain indubitably, on the basis of fully informed consent! End of story!
Alan B.

One other factor in this is the family court.

Women with children can choose at any time to walk out of a mirage or relationship, & take over 70% of the assets of the couple with them.

I know quite a few men who have had the snip, so they can not find themselves in that situation.

On the other side of the coin, how many children, claimed to be due to a failure of contraception, were definitely planned by a lady?

Yeah, people argue we need to reduce the global population which is true for the developing world. On the other hand, most if not all western countries actually need to drastically increase their birthrates...the EU birthrate is something like 1.5 which has led to the massive debt problems, terrorism, the sexual assault crisis, and the destruction of the absolutely necessary social contract.
Its hard to imagine what else the boomers could have done to make the West weaker for young people. Generation Z are now faced with rebuilding western civilisation from the ground up while shackled with trillions of dollars in debt. Quite the sad state of affairs.

The reduction in the birth rate can be largely attributed to the introduction of the contraceptive pill and has nothing to do with feminism.
David

feminism has usually equalled selfishness. Obviously some exceptions. Strange part is that it also often ends in bitterness and regret.