sainfletcher: Actually, what would be even easier would be if you rounded all these unskilled outsiders up and made them wear a coloured piece of cloth sewn onto their clothing. Then, when things still didn't improve, you could put them all in a big walled village. Finally, failing that, you could provide free (and compulsory) train trips out into the hinterland where there was plenty of overtime and free showers for any who wanted them (and many who didn't!).

Chainsmoker, you ask some pertinent questions. I agree that it is not a pretty concept. But by crikey neither is the prospect of continued rapid population growth with no end in sight or at least no end until the quality of life has dropped to a point that is no longer at all attractive to people from the southern states.

Some pretty major changes in quality of life have been triggered by or compounded by this rapid population growth in SEQ, not least the water crisis, congested roads, overwhelmed health services and many others.

I don’t think you should for one moment just be accepting that these changes will continue to happen, to everyone’s detriment.

Beyond a point where a population can be comfortably supported by the resource base and technology, increasing population pressures lead to increasing restrictions on everyone. That’s a pretty basic world reality. So instead of accepting that these pressures will increase on established residents, I think it is perfectly fair and reasonable to place the restrictions predominantly on those who wish to move into already overcrowded and resource-stressed areas.

Thank You for starting this post.

All too often posts are started without much thought.

This is different. This is sensible to bring the problem of over crowding especially with the water situation in QLD.

We need to STOP all migration right now.

Why are the QLD polys doing nothing.

People are arriving in the droves- the thousands- more and more and more.

Its takes a half an hour to get to your local shop instead of the three minutes we are all used to. When you do there are no car parks for the locals who pay the rates.

There are no beds in hospitals and Drs cant cope.

We have no water and no plans in the near future.

We needs to close the borders other than tourists for several years

Its worse than many think and I can not understand whby its stil going on unchallanged by our QLD Government.

They are destroying our life styles and our kids schools.

We live on the Gold coast and I can tell you now forget going to your local beach or park

Its insulting to the locals.

Water- What do they care as they shower at lenght in their resorts.

The Royal Pines Resort actually put a sign up asking people to restrict their shower time.
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Do Something Peter!

Thanks for your support ‘People…’ person.

You are right; it is far worse than most people think, in fact worse than even the tiny concerned minority think.

The great problem is that our political system is so totally dominated by the profit motive. No politician in power can even dare to address the issue! There would be outrage from big business, not least from the real estate industry. And the government would be turfed out at the next election!

Neither can the opposition say much, for fear of losing the support of the all-powerful growth lobby and hence gravely reducing their chances of winning power.

Governments in our pseudodemocracy just aren’t in a position to make the really big decisions that are of vital importance to the community!

This immensely powerful profit-motive-above-all-else factor has hijacked our democracy and is leading us directly to ruin.