Excerpts from, An Australian Population Policy Research Paper 17 1996-97
Gavin W. Jones
Consultant
Social Policy Group

"Australia's population policy is implicit in its immigration program, but it is a policy by stealth, a policy without consensus, and a highly erratic policy, as exemplified by the wild swings in immigration targets over time. This is not a satisfactory situation. More transparency over long-term aims is needed, and if it turns out that the fluctuations in annual settler arrival targets under different Ministers for Immigration have been based more on gut feelings than on fine tuning in relation to economic and social conditions, then that needs to be more apparent to the general public, too. Population policy has to be seen as much more than immigration policy."

"In neighbouring countries, the fact that Australia's population is tiny in relation to our land area leads to widespread perceptions that it could be much larger. These perceptions will colour attitudes to Australia's capacity to accept refugees and regular international migrants. The extreme dryness of the Australian continent needs to be emphasised in our attempts to promote a more realistic perception among opinion leaders in these countries."

"What Would a National Population Policy Actually Entail?
Implicit in what has already been said in this paper is the need for Australia to adopt a population policy. Reports and commissions over the years have advised government that Australia should have an explicit population policy. There has been a notable absence of outside advice to the contrary. But governments have steadfastly ignored the weight of advice.

As the country with the largest planned immigration program per head in the world, with the exception of Israel, it seems obvious that at the very least, we need to sort out our longer-term goals for population size and growth. Decisions are also needed about whether we want to modify some of the distributional trends - particularly the ever-increasing tendency for the population to perch around the coastline, as if some centrifugal force were operating to empty out inland areas of Australia."

Paul1405, China has tariffs on Australian imports.
Yes, there is a free trade agreement in the works, without the consent of the Australian people.
The arrangement will mostly benefit China.

A small Australian economy, protected by tariffs, will make little difference to the rest of the world.
They will carry on as usual.

"ready made skilled people at no cost to us, but a a big cost to them."

And what is true of NZ is true of India, Japan and many other countries. We are taking their skilled people and offering nothing in return? (Not that they would accept Australian migrants anyway).

Humanitarian gestures can only help a tiny fraction of the total.
Better to help the original problems, than stick a band aid on the symptoms.
If that's even possible.

Family reunion? Get on a plane.

Germany took in 1 million migrants in one year and look at the
troubles they have let themselves take on.
It will be interesting to watch their GDP. It should rise significantly
because of the government spending on immigrants.
However the average German will not be better off.
The criminal situation in Germany is far worse.

Australia is taking in a similar rate of immigrants, adjusted for
population, and we can expect similar results.
In Germany they are spread over a number of cities and towns.
In Australia they are concentrated in two cities and in small areas
of those cities.
Except they have been "selected" there is not much difference.

We should halt the immigration until we do a review and in the longer
term aim for a population that matches the water availability.
We are making an energy crisis and unless we stop export of coal it
is coal for electricity that will put a cap on our population.
That problem could be avoided if we adopt nuclear power.
To sum up, energy and water limit our population.
It is not an OR decision but an AND decision.

From now we do not have enough electricity for our present numbers.
Are we stupid enough to bring in 200,000 more this year ?
Then next year and the year after that ?
Stand by for electricity rationing.

Dick Smith is right about the coming "pitchforks".

No people in history have ever passively accepted their own destruction.
They have always fought back (sometimes unsuccessfully).

When enough Australians realise they are not being "augmented" by a little "spice", but are being extinguished by it (the "spice" is now over 80% of the influx), they will retaliate.

Choose now.
Australian future or no future.
Time's up.

Come on SHOCKADELIC, all of Europe is being over-run by Muslims, in fact the days of the West, or even western civilisation per se, are all but numbered. Why, because of the stupid, utterly morally corrupt politicians, who keep breaking their promises, to do and say things they've no intention of doing or saying! And it is us, the electorate who allow them to get away with it. Whether it's a European country or us in the Asia Pacific region, we only get the politicians we deserve.

It's clearly our fault (the electorate), for not demanding they do precisely what it is we want, in terms of calling a halt, to all immigration. And when a decision is taken to permit entry to a small selection of Refugees - Screen them first for their religious proclivities, in order to determine whether they'll assimilate adequately within our Australian society. And when necessary, interdict those refugees who're suspected of being a criminal, terrorist or potential terrorist. If they're genuine, you'll know, believe me, as a retired copper most experienced coppers will know very quickly if an individual's attempting to obfuscate their background and deep background, data and antecedents.

Shock & O sung Wu, there is not much that we can do to influence the
major parties. They are simply not listening.
The Liberals want more migrants to elevate the GDP and Labour wants
the same as it suits the lefty Greens and supplies more voters for Labour.
The only solution is to give your preferential vote 1, 2, 3 for
The Conservatives, Australian Liberty Alliance & One Nation.
They may end up with enough to force whichever party wins government
to cut back immigration.
However we will get another 600,000 by the time parliament restarts.