The SPP will win about as many votes as the Coke in the Bubblers Party.

You'd be better off investigating where the SPP's money is coming from. They have a generous benefactor.

You'd be hardly a "cuckoo" to vote for a stable population - or for whatever political party that promotes stability. The cuckoo is a clever and pretty bird that lays its eggs in the nest of other species. They unknowingly raise the chicks, displacing their own offspring! That's what mass immigration is doing to Australia - and the other countries that hold that policy. We are adopting other countries' problems when we continue to load our nation and then cause the problems these migrants are trying to escape from. While high immigration benefited in the past, it's now causing environmental, social, economic and political damage to our country. Why continue recklessly and blindly towards overpopulation that's causing an abyss of scarcities, extinctions, conflicts and climate change in other countries across the planet?
The SPP is for a STABLE population, a sensible idea, where immigration is limited. Immigration should equal emigration - so I'll be voting for these cuckoos!

"The SPP has returned to the tired old theories of Thomas Malthus,"

Drivel-- the author has constructed a fantasy SPP, the article is simply an attempt to discredit the messenger rather than provide evidence that a high rate of population growth is beneficial, rather than detrimental to Australia. It is of course, a nice little earner for certain vested interests, who are adept at passing on the costs to the public.

Check the SPP website itself.

VivienneO,

Agreed. Reminiscent of the type of sophistry used by the climate change deniers.

Another off-the-planet piece by Malcolm King! Where would one begin to list its fallacies and distortions?

It's nice to see that the flat earth society is alive and doing well.
perpetual growth for ever.
Really, you wonder where these people come from that cannot see the end of the myth.

After reading Malcolm King's article three times, I still can't figure out where he is coming from.

Malcolm seems to support the idea that planet Earth can absorb any amount of population increase. I drew that conclusion, because Malcolm attacks anybody who has the idea that endless population growth is a bad idea. Malcolm could not be a liberal greenie, because most greenies are smart enough to figure out that unrestricted population growth will eventually kill our planet.

So, I can only conclude that Malcolm is either a Catholic, or his family has a vested business interest in maintaining high population growth.

Of course, Malcolm does address the irony that many liberal greenies are finding themselves in. It is rather stupid, if you are a greenie, to support high immigration into western societies to produce endless growth. More people, means more cars, more electricity, more dams, more desalination plants for clean water, more concrete, and more greenhouse gases. Supporting high population growth would make a greenie feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.

So Malcolm trots out the old "racism" todge to scare the greenie liberals back into supporting high immigration. People who want to limit immigration and population growth, says Malcolm, are racists, right wingers, eugenicists, and anti Semites. You don't want to listen to people like that, do you? You don't want people to think that you are a (shock, horror) racist, do you?

From my poet of view, if you are a liberal greenie, then you had better start listening to people like that. Because throughout history, the only way to limit overpopulation in localised areas was through war, famine, or pestilence.

My own bet is on pestilence. Think of the Earth as an organism, right? Most of you can conceptualise that. And humans as the pathogens, right? While diseases like AIDS, drug resistant TB, Ebola, Schistosomiasis, Yellow Fever, Malaria, Meningitus and Machupo, and drug resistant Influenza, are the antibodies, and you got the idea.

I think that Malcolm is an accomplished wordsmith. He know how to use flowery language present total insanity as something credible.