Yes Hasbeen I was as out raged as you When south Australia put in the irrigation channel from Queensland to south Australia. Why some people call it a river is beyond me.

Reality and hasbeen are not well acquainted.

I’m sure you were even more outraged Kenny, when South Oz built a barrage/dam across the mouth of that ditch, generating the largest fresh water playground, & irrigation canal in the country, then demanded that the eastern states give up their water, & stop irrigated farming, just so you could fill it with their water.

I’m not that much a fan of SA wines that I’m prepared to go along with that idea.

Perhaps it’s something to do with being a university town that helps you convince the greenies that the huge pond so generated is natural, & should be protected with the blood of thousands.

Some things to consider:

What if the majority of people of Adelaide don't WANT to live in a 'university city'? Just a thought.

Furthermore, a university city along the lines of Oxford or Princeton doesn't become a university city by building lots of competing universities. It becomes a university city by having one world-class institution.

Scanning through the staff profiles of various universities, it does certainly appear that many of the staff, if not most, are newly arrived immigrants.

I am wondering how much the universities are now for the benifite of newly arrived immigrants and foregin students, and just how much does Australia get out of it.

I am also wondering about a figure of 8 million I have recently seen, the recommended number of people who could live in Australia sustainably.

That is, the number of people the environment could sustain.