Australia is not growing but shrinking in terms of per capita GDP i.e. we're getting poorer. Housing is less affordable than ever. Cities like Perth and Adelaide may be facing dire water shortages with rising food prices. Electricity may have to be rationed in a few years. In the next 20 years most of the boomers will have passed and their support needs will decline. China, Japan and South Korea seem to be coping with an ageing population.

My fear is that when Australia is over the demographic hump it will no longer be such a desirable place to live. It will be poorer, more expensive and riddled with tension. In a hospital visit last year the staff spoke to each other in Hindi. High immigration is creating more problems than it solves.

Yes, lets be honest with ourselves.

Average population growth in the OECD bloc is about 0.5%. Apart from Canada, no other rich nation can match our crazy rate of population growth, 2.4%.

Most importantly, poll after poll shows that most Australians want much lower migration. The author should be listening to them - not lecturing them.

“Much discussion” my backside. The political class - those causing unwanted and inappropriate immigration - don't want to talk about it at all. Both members of the uniparty are using mass immigration to cover up the sorry state of the Australian economy and change our culture forever. Dutton’s “promise” to lower immigration is as unbelievable as are all the utterances of our self-serving, increasingly dictatorial political class.

Immigration, multiculturalism, have divided the Australian population. The “best country in the world”, “our beautiful country” etc, still mumbled by the shockingly naive Australian zombies, is dead and buried. It is now a piss-weak country at the arse end of the world: virtually defenceless, self-hatred, growingly totalitarian (censorship, digital ID, anti-Semitic, identity politics and Maoist divide and conquer tactics, agreed on by the Coalition and Green Labor).

Illegal aliens are “Mostly, they are allowed to stay”. How pathetic is that!

“Australia has developed one of the most successful multicultural societies in the world”.

There is no such thing as “successful multiculturalism”. Most countries, certainly Australia, make no attempt to insist on, and enforce, a keep-your-culture-at-home policy, and be actual Australians in public. None of the hatreds and behaviour you claim to be escaping will be tolerated here.

And, enough of the bullsh-t about a “declining and ageing population”. The ultimate population for this vast, mainly uninhabitable continent was, and still is, 13 million.

There are Western countries with half of Australia's population doing much better than we are.

Australia is rooted, thanks to the sort of rubbish prattled in this article.

I was going to comment, but there's little to add after the earlier comments.

daily reports in Australia of shortages of Tradespeople, Doctors, Hospitality workers and so on.
Guy Hallowes,
That is plainly due to education being pushed for education's sake instead of educate people who can comprehend being educated. Every dill now flashes a BA & that makes then think they're "too educated" to become lowly trades people. Exactly the opposite is the case. They'r not intelligent enough to become tradespeople but they're deemed competent in their incompetence & fit for the Public Service . The Peter Principle is going strong indeed ! Have you taken a look at the average bozo lately ? Drugged & pi$$ed to the eyeballs, covered in tattoos & getting all the support to go through life at everyone else's expense courtesy of Labor !

The real test is the ability of a country to provide a decent life for its citizens and look after its environment. Here is a link to the UN Human Development Index (HDI), a measure of human well-being.

http://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks

Our rank is 10. All of the countries that rank above us have much lower population growth rates, and some in the top 20 have declining populations. They don't seem to be suffering from it. All the countries in the top 20 apart from Australia and Hong Kong have had growth in their HDI index. Ours is falling.

Here is our performance on the Environmental Performance Index. Our overall rank is 17, but it is brought up by our marine protected areas. Our performance in other areas is woeful.

http://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/country/aus