Excuse me, but isn't Australia 2/3 desert? Who will feed these newcomers? Currently a lot of agricultural land is being targeted/bought up for coal mining/gassification in Qld., e.g. around Miles/Chinchilla, Felton, Kingaroy, Alpha; is this why we are now buying frozen veggies from China, also biscuits? Toowoomba's water supply is now at 8%.

Perhaps you might all like to introduce a one child policy? It worked so well in China.

This is a big problem with conflicting needs and wants, doing just one thing will not solve problems elsewhere. All these "systems" are interconnected in some way. It takes a leader to step right back and re-adjust the chess board. This is an emotional issue where I don't believe for a millisecond that anyone has the right response or answer because their thinking is clouded in misinformation and assumptions. The only thing we can be sure about is that things change - how we deal with that change will either help us or hinder us.

Lets build at least one city that can sustainably support, say, half a million people.
When we can get one city to work...then we can plan for "big Australia".
The policy of Howard: high immigration to prop-up housing whilst vilifying refugees, has been continued by Rudd.
We did not weather the GFC...we delayed it by unsustainable growth. It will hit Australia soon.
Instead of being world leaders in solar, wind and sustainable building and farming we have followed England and the US by letting bankers control our economy. What fools our "leaders" (both business and government) are!

Yes we should, we need a bit of a rest from chewing. We have been eating wave after wave of people, chewing them up, & turning them into Ozies. We've been doing it for so long now, that we are quite a bit less Ozie than we were, & perhaps a bit less accepting, & definately tired of chewing.

There has always been the whinging pom, but after WW11 they were joined by the reffos. Well we put them to work, building the Snowy, & other stuff, & then they were Ozies.

The next lot, the dagoes, wops, & wogs were a bit harder. A few old ozies were hurt, when they took over some areas, but a bit more hard chewing, we put them to work, building cars, fridges, washing machines, & roads, & then they were Ozies.

Then it was the gooks, & this is harder. They not only talk different, they look different. But their kids do studdy hard, & do things some of us are getting too lazy to do, like become doctors, so I think we'll get there soon, & they'll all be Ozies.

I must say, the jury is still out on our Islamic new comers. It appears many of them don't want to be Ozies, which does not do much for the cause.

Now a new flood. When I go into a public housing area, & after asking 6 people for directions, I am yet to find someone who speaks english, I start to wonder what I'm paying taxes for. It is definitely not to house thousands of immigrants, when thousands of old Ozies can't afford the rents charged privately.

It is not to pay welfare to communities where 70% are still claiming it, 2 years after arival.

We have always looked after our own, but we are starting to disown more of those living among us. It's time to take some real care, old Ozies, with their backs up, are very dangerous people.

It is time for a new leader who is strong enough to lead this country. The only person who has stood up to be counted on the boat people joke is Barnaby JOyuce. And it is time to re look at the treaty signed with the united nations.