Two thirds of Australia is uninhabitable, and it will always be uninhabitable. Talk about getting water to deserts is absolute rubbish. It's not going to happen. For heaven's sake! Isn't this article about an inability to deliver infrastructure in the populated areas? Talking about 'watering deserts' is total BS. We don't need it.

Aidan,
Yes they just about all believe in some mythological sky pilot who can perform miracles

'No, Individual. They do care. They're just duped by the Catholic Church.'

As someone who has little time for the Roman Catholic church I am amazed at the haters of that church. You would think anyone who is anti life and anti procreation would have something to say about Islam, polygamy etc. Intead they can't help themselves. They push their own ideologies of hatred that are irrational at best.

There aren't "billions of Africans, Asians & Central Americans whose children are starving & dying en-masse".
Aidan,
So, these images we're seeing on the media are just fake News ? Would you still quibble if I'd said hundreds of millions ?
My concerns are about real peoples' sufferings, your's appear to be mere pettifogging !

Aidan and any other Cornucopian growthists should take a look at this world map of soil quality and resilience from the US Department of Agriculture, with particular attention to Australia.

https://external-preview.redd.it/I9JOdIxObBEM5iiuzM5ZIhQ-eSrjbVeheHbXXxak_9o.jpg?auto=webp&s=4faa27de6bd85c81f3ee34ab33c461c3c1de8ccb

Water is very heavy and incompressible. Piping it hundreds of kilometers (maybe after desalinating it), a lot of it up a gradient, to places that have poor soil and ferocious evaporation rates is worse than pointless.

Instead of wanting to cram in the maximum number of people on the minimum standard of living, we should be aiming for a population low enough that everyone can have a good quality of life, in a healthy environment where the other species can live as well.

I don't worry about what party can form government. I just put the major parties and any other Big Australia candidates last, with the sitting member last of all. Once enough of the politicians start getting their snouts kicked out of the trough, their parties will adopt more sensible policies. Their rich mates can give them money, but they can't force you or me to vote for them.

Fixed the link.

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/use/?cid=nrcs142p2_054011

Enlarged map:

http://external-preview.redd.it/I9JOdIxObBEM5iiuzM5ZIhQ-eSrjbVeheHbXXxak_9o.jpg?auto=webp&s=4faa27de6bd85c81f3ee34ab33c461c3c1de8ccb