Its amazing how free market globalism and communism actually result in very similar lifestyle outcomes for most people

Progressive Pat :-)) exactly.

Your observations fit perfectly with the observed outcomes of no change, between a life under the boot of neoliberalist and socialist governments of LNP and Labor.
The primary reason I don't vote. I'm a responsible citizen.

Dan

"Although it may seem like a giant leap, there are Australian CEO's and Boards of Directors who will be looking more carefully at the costs of relentless population growth as the coronavirus digs deeper and deeper into all our wallets."

I doubt that big business is concerned about population growth; it suits them, and they should have no say in the matter anyway. The problem lies with vote-seeking politicians. And I doubt that they will put a stop to our mass immigration of unneeded and inappropriate people once the China virus scare has gone. They can't help themselves, the idiots.

Indeed, as some of us more enlightened ones have been stating for some years.

Great article, Eric

The present globalisation/mass migration policies have resulted in enormous benefits for the folk at the top, but negative outcomes for most other people: more crowding and congestion, stagnant wages, enormously inflated housing costs for inferior housing, overloaded infrastructure and public services, more severe water restrictions, more pressure on the environment, etc., etc. Privatise the profits and socialise the costs. Guess who is going to be stuck with the costs of this coronavirus episode?

Nothing is going to change until the Australian people start holding their politicians to account. Diver Dan isn't being a good citizen by not voting. He should be putting the major parties last (and the Greens, who are also for Big Australia), regardless of whoever is running against them, with major party sitting members last of all.

Rubbish, infectious diseases are spread by folk who just do not practice good hygiene. But I hear what you are saying about rack and stack population growth and the profit curve of developers and the need to populate or perish!

Plus, our economic model is predicated on both population growth and a permanent pool of unemployed/ largish percentage of folk living below the poverty line. (And what one might expect if the emphasis is almost exclusively on preserving PARASITIC privilege [negative gearing/capital gains tax subsidies, etc/etc.] and power? (I'm alright Jack) To the exclusion of all else?

Others and our economy mired in so much debt that our Grandkids, given they survive? Will still be servicing for the term of their natural lives!?

It's not as if there is not a vastly better more egalitarian way!

A way where we spread out into a truly massive vast empty inland and build our cities on land not suitable for much else!

But would take a different mindset and one genuinely governed at the highest levels, by a fair dinkum, Christian mindset/ethos!

And cooperative capitalism! And the worlds cleanest, safest, cheapest power,i.e., MSR's that burning donated nuclear waste, i.e., unspent fuel that other folks pay us annual billions to take off their hands. And it's this same money that would pay all the necessary outlays and when up and running, retire all our current debt!

But only if we as a nation start giving a rats for our neighbour and embrace cooperative capitalism!

It's the whole deal, the entire package and now or just more of the same and worse! You ain't seen nothing yet!
Alan B.