There have been too many people in Australia since the population passed the 13.5 million mark. There are also too many people of the wrong sort since the introduction of multiculturalism.

Australia his rooted.

Dear ttbn,

You are just so right about that.

Jared Diamond wrote in his book 'Collapse' that Australia's sustainable population was only about 9 million.

I think that the bushfires raging across the country this year are letting us know just how fragile the Australian environment is and how badly we have managed it.

The politicians, bureaucrats and business leaders have pushed for population figures beyond the sustainable level as a means to drive progress and development. Unfortunately they ignored the fact that the country does not have the capacity for large-scale population driven development.

It turned out to be one big mistake that has given rise to a demographic landscape that cannot be supported by a fragile environment and has produced a polyglot multiethnic multiracial overpopulation problem that is getting worse everyday.

Pre-multicultural Australia may have had its problems but at least we had a country we could define as a nation. Now we have a mix of disparate groups that are segregated into different languages and customs and do not want to live with one another. You should come to Sydney and have a look at what a No-Nation Australia looks like.

My mate is in Melbourne at present & he called to say that he cannot believe he is in Australia !

Dear individual,

I assume that's because your mate has also noticed how many Chinese there are in Australia.

Misopinionated,

1. There will be far more British in Australia than China-born Chinese for many decades yet; add in the Kiwis and it could be centuries.

2. Chinese - i.e. from China - have become accustomed to a one-child policy, and even a no-child practice. Apart from the Chinese who come to Australia and inter-marry, other Chinese will have relatively few children, and struggle to keep up their numbers here.

3. There are probably hundreds of distinct ethnic groups across Australia, and there is no automatic collusion between many of them to somehow take over Australia, as you and other paranoid hysterics seem to think.

4. You're an uneducated moron.

Joe

I don't believe multiculturalism is the big bad ogre that many will have us believe. I agree with Joe on this, but I do understand the population concerns regarding sustainability that others have. From my experience it takes 3 generations before assimilation really kicks in. Grandparents naturally cling to the old way of life, the parents through contact become more engendered into the general population, and finally the grandchildren become assimilated. I see that very thing with my family, our grandchildren are more Australian than me, and I'm 5th or 6th generation.

Politicians like to continually refer to growth as the panacea for all problems, but are they referring to growth just to sustain the population, or is it growth to build profits at the expense of the population. What is Australia's sustainable population Mr O you refered to 9 million, I doubt that is a realistic figure, considering the population is now over 25 million. How does our population equate with India 1,400 million and China about the same. Australia cannot run some kind of isolationist policy when it comes to population. The world is overpopulated with nearly 8 billion inhabitants and growing rapidly, add the shocking distribution of diminishing resources to the equation, and its obvious that this huge population is unsustainable.