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For years, successive Premiers of Queensland have been talking out of both sides of their mouths about population and have been allowed to get away with it by an unbelievably servile newsmedia. (And don't be fooled by the Courier Mail's posturing from time to time against some aspects of the Bligh Government's gross misgovernment of Queensland. They are barely scratching the surface.)

When it is politically expedient the Queensland Government blatantly touts for more immigrants, such as when Bligh recently chimed is to say (in the face of its abysmal failure to do so up up until now) that Queensland could meet the challenge of population growth. On 8 December 2005 they placed full page advertisements in the Courier Mail (and I suspect other major capital city dailies) inviting more people to move here (http://candobetter.org/node/1121#PopulationGrowth). Then, on other occasions, when the problems caused by population growth, on top of its own mismanagement, becomes too obvious to ignore, Bligh will plead that it's not her fault. It was all caused by population growth. That was her response to two successive Auditor General reports which damned her Government's mismanagement of the health and public transport systems.

Never once, have I heard a Queensland journalist confront Bligh or her predecessor Beattie with this obvious self-contradiction.

It is hard to imagine even the newsmedia of the Third Reich being more cooperative with its Government than the Queensland press is today.

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James Sinnamon
Brisbane Independent for Truth,
Democracy and Economic Justice
Australian Federal Elections, 2010

http://candobetter.org/AustralianElections/Brisbane

daggett, you hit the nail on the head.

Premier Bligh recently said cost blowouts in Qld were necessary if Queenslanders wanted the services of teachers, police, courts, etc. Add the extra cost associated with increased demand for electricity, water, garbage disposal, etc and bingo. This is effectively Bligh's admission that accelerating immigration broke the State Budget.

Immigration into Aus is at the moment unfunded and apparently even uncosted.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/22/2749974.htm

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