Overpopulation is a global problem and basically non solvable.
Humanely anyway.
Nature will sort us out sooner or later.

You/they/them overcrowd already overcrowded cities reduce the tax that use to pay for the infrastructure that proceeded development rather than follow, as now. Grease greasy palms to bypass development protocols?

Developers want to have their cake and eat it too. Want to cram more and more people into denser and denser domiciles, then moan about being asked to contribute to the necessary infrastructure to move these people around to where they need to be, for work, study or play!

What we need is very rapid rail and we need it twenty years ago!
Alan B.

Some public servants would go to Bundaberg, Orange, Parkes, Echuca, Renmark, Albany and Alice Springs kicking and screaming - discrimination.
OzSpen,
The way too generous benefits & allowances greatly encourage people to go to other places they don't even have an ounce of interest in !
The Public Service tops the list !

Hear, hear and well said Ozpen. Agree with the proposal/suggestion only I would make mandatory for this or that particular position.

One-third of the workforce are public servants paid with our money to serve us!

If they don't like being asked to relocate, then the position should be offered to more suitable and less choosey applicants. They can still video-link if they need senior advice!

When some of these folk are asked to operate more independently of the usual water cooler crowd they fail dismally and are shown up as incompetent?

Can't blame shift when you are the only grunt on deck!
Alan B.

I agree completely Ozpen. All levels of the public service employment, state & commonwealth, should be spread equally throughout the state & country.

With internet communications there is no need for all departments to be any where near the parliament, & many should be moved to regional cities & towns.

I had to laugh recently when I found the main center for the state government tropical animal husbandry is in Noosa, a hell of a long way from the tropics.

It is a simple mathematical problem.
This is a country that has droughts, perhaps two in 20 years.
We know the capacity of the rainfall. Forget considering dams, we just
build as many as we need. Current drought is now 8 years.
Desal is an expensive emergency source.
Knowing how much water falls out of the sky and where, it can be
calculated what the maximum population should be.
If the current population is greater the excess MUST leave.
Last in, first out.
If not then that sets the maximum. When reached no more come in.
If you were in a lifeboat that would be the rule.
Can anything be simpler ?