Not to mention environmental and social cohesion issues.

Voting against a "Big Australia" is the only thing that has decided my vote for the last 10 years. Unfortunately, both major parties are all for it. There is no choice on this issue and the politicians won't even let the question be asked.

"No matter how much we borrow and build, Australia continues to resemble a dog chasing its own tail when it comes to infrastructure provision."

Never were truer words written, and they will be true in Australia as long as the mania for mass immigration continues. Australia and Australians are really suffering in many ways, thanks to mass immigration and politicians who are listening to the wrong people.

400,000 extra people every year. Ye Gods! And, how crazy (and impractical) is the idea of sending immigrants to the barren, bush-fire ridden bush, to cause even more bushfires and and red dirt blowing away! And no jobs, either, Australia having been de-industrialised by gutless politicians kowtowing to the unelected UN way back in 1975 with the Lima Declaration. Take particular notice of the complete about face of our Big Australia Prime Minister on this one. What a bunch of lying, all-over-the-place bunch of critters Australian politicians are.

William Rutan writes that "Australians (need to) make more of an effort to hold their political leaders to account". But how do we do that when the only two parties capable of forming a government are in lockstep with each other on a Big Australia; and it's killing us.

I tend to agree that it is elites showing off to each other. Visual media seems to be skewed towards presenters with English as a second language. What about using some of the 722,000 people on Newstart? It's total GDP that grows with immigration not per capita GDP. That flatlined or sometimes downward pointing metric says that Australia has enough people. God forbid the problems with 30 or 40 million.

I also suggest that foreign student education is partly an immigration scam. 25% apply for permanent residence apparently. They have to experience rural hardship by working a year in one of those well known outback towns Perth, Hobart or the Gold Coast. Other guest workers (formerly Section 457) become permanent along with relatives. Dare I suggest some 'refugees; don't integrate well yet strangely take trips back to where they were oppressed.

To a large extent, the reverse is true: population growth will make building more infrastructure more affordable; more demand will always strengthen the financial case for it. The problem is there has been far too little provision for future infrastructure - and with no infrastructure corridors reserved, everything can get built over - which will send costs sky high.

Probably the most sensible essay to appear on this forum for a long time.
There are just TOO MANY PEOPLE, not only in Australia but on the Earth itself.
However getting two humans to agree on about anything is almost impossible so the prospects of getting the, rapidly increasing, global population to agree is very unlikely.
As Sir DA said "humans have overrun the Earth".
Hanrahan was right.

It's much cheaper to live without children. Strange how millions of religious Australians haven't figured that out. Maybe they just don't care.