One of the worst things about globalisation is the movement of people, too many of them moving from the Third World to the First World: Australia in particular.

Between 2015 to 2025 an extra 3.8 million people were lobbed on Australia by our crackpot political class. 32% of the population were born elsewhere; the largest block from Asia. “A bigger Australia is a more Asian Australia”.

It is predicted that by 2100 Asia's population will fall, but Australia's population will increase by 16%. The lunatics in Canberra are intent on a Big Australia.

We are looking at our population growing from its present 27 million to 43, 000 by 2100. Australia will cease to be a Western country. The loony left should be thrilled to bits - the few of them left who will be white and English-speaking.

A mathematical genius!

"It is predicted that by 2100 Asia's population will fall, but Australia's population will increase by 16%."

"We are looking at our population growing from its present 27 million to 43,000 by 2100."

27,000,000 x 1.16 = 43,000 WRONG!

Maybe ttbn thinks 26,957, 000 Australians are going to migrate to Asia! Sounds like the thoughts of the Lovely Pauline

Hi Fester,
Maybe 50% bought off / threatened the right people, and
50% luck that some Venezuelan didn't shoot U.S. helicopters down.

Hi Paul,
Yep someones maths is all messed up.
I remember is being 15 million when I was a kid.
The internet says 15 million in 1981 and 16 million by 1987.
So we've grown about 50% in 45 years.

In any case, I reckon ttbn's 43 million by 2100 estimate could be conservative, but who knows, it's 74 years away - anything could happen.

Hi ttbn
From your opening post.

"Globalisation has deindustrialised Western countries like Australia, where there is a glut of university graduates without the practical skills needed to build the economy. And the graduates are looking down the barrel of AI anyway. What a mess."

Well we did it to ourselves, capitalism did it.

Look at the retail stores selling everything we buy.
They're not privately owned companies acting in the countries best interests.
They're publicly traded companies and are accountable to shareholders.
And boards and shareholders don't care about the Aussie worker, they care about profits.
So these companies need to source the best value for money items to maximise profitability to shareholders, not retain Aussie jobs.

Other countries were cheaper for energy costs and wages.
Capitalism goes where the money is.

Things were all good when we were the cheapest and best and profitability was there to manufacture things at home, but times changed.

"...only to see 25% of them drop out before graduation, and too many of those who made it now working in shops or cafes, where most of them can't even do a decent squiggle on the surface of a flat white."
- For all their time at uni, they could've at least leaned how to start their own coffee shop.

Hi AC

I can 't agree with you. I think its going to be 2100 by the year 43,000,000, Sorry I got that wrong, its going to be 43,000,000 by I don't know when, or could it be eleventeen million by a quarter past two? My head hurts with all this ttbn dang-fangle arithmetic, In any case it only takes 45 minutes to bake a batch of chocolate brownies, as we know, and its been proven by the Lovely Pauline, that there are too many chocolate brownies in this country already,and send them all back to where they come from, down there in Moonee Ponds I think, along with all those cookie boys as well! Australia is being flooded with Chocolate Brownies and Cookie Boys!

I say BUY AUSTRALIAN! If you haven't got a TEMU account, then do the next best patriotic thing and shop at K-Mart !