Just means that the already horrendous traffic and environmental destruction will get even worse.

What utter fools these southerners must be.

Don't they realise that by 2020 the stink of the dead & rotting Great Barrier Reef means people will require permanent use of gas masks to be able to live in Qld.

If that is not bad enough, models are telling us that by 2025 global warming will have made the whole damn state too hot for humans to survive without a spacesuit.

By 2030 the same global warming will cause all our underground coal to spontaneously ignite, rendering all life impossible.

Mexicans go home.

Not necessarily!

But, it could well mean longer waiting times for treatment at a hospital or emergency ward. Or more kids jammed into already overcrowded non-air-conditioned classrooms.

Or pay rises for public servants, not because they do more work or have become more efficient, productive, or more fearless with their reasoned logical advice.

But rather they're administering (in time-wasting triplicate) bigger (not much) numbers.

We will continue to pay far too much for energy and from just one provider! Competition? Bah humbug!

Or the highest registration charges in the land. While the drongos currently in charge pat themselves on the back as they spend the increased mining royalties faster than they come in.

Nor have a practical plan to grow the economy by any other means than increase our share of the population.

Or make room for folk who can't afford Sydney or Melbourne house prices or winter heating bills!

Baby sardine swimming beside its mother just offshore from the concrete jungle that's now the Gold Coast said, look mum, tinned people!
Alan B.

Here's what a practical plan to grow the economy might look like whether or not we sell more gas and coal to China. And could be suddenly shut off to exercise new control?

Anyhow, we need to stop allowing a few control freaks inside Labor, to continue to prevent/prohibit nuclear power for peaceful purpose as official Labor policy!

With that done and dusted crack on with VERY SAFE MSR thorium and use it as waste burners that then mean other folks will pay (annual billions) for all the accompanying R+D and the build costs as well as supply hundreds of years worth of free fuel!

Which is what nuclear waste is, or if you will, unspent fuel!

Then with non-privatized unless it is as government facilitated and funded co-ops. Give virtually free power to any high tech energy dependant enterprise that wants to set up or relocate here.

And sell as much dispatchable peak load power to the southern states as they want or the grid can handle?

That no coal-fired power station can compete with

And or use any surplus to requirements, to turn endless seawater into (lighter than air) hydrogen which will rise as high as our highest peaks without pumps.

Then pass it through ceramic fuel cells to make on-demand peak load power and pristine water.

Which can then flow west and by design to our farthest far-flung communities and do some work on its way down!

Name your preference EINSTEIN!

Stored and used/piped when the drought burns the land?

And just the start of what could be possible if the drongos in charge grow a brain or a spine, or both!
Alan B.

Al…your thorium posts are as tedious as the bureaucracy-triplicates referred to.

Couldn't you post a live link back to a previous comment on the subject for those interested to follow.

Oh the other hand, your reference to the sardines and the sardine life style of those crammed into ever more dwellings built on ever decreasing land area, and representing the new age Gold Coast suburbia, is very succinct.

My tip is they are heading north simply because the cost of living expenses down south have forced them out.

Let's face it, we QLD are broke, and we have a higher than average unemployment rate, so it's not as if they are moving for work.

I hope i'm wrong, but I can't see how this is anything other than shifting the welfare burden from southern states to QLD. Perhaps it has something to do with the hundreds of thousands of illegals the government is resettling in the likes of Sydney.

I guess with the lower cost of living it was only a matter of time. So it may well cause a boom as such, because the first home buyer chasing their dream in the likes of Sydney for $600K will have a field day here. Their only hurdle will be in finding a secure job, and good luck with that, especially with the greens working harder than ever to shut down mining.

We sure are a self destructing race.