Bob Carr, former labour premier of NSW, says Australia's immigration intake should be halved, to slow population growth. "The economic arguments don't stack up. Increased immigration adds more to the demand for labour than it does to supply."
A new party, the Stable Population Party of Australia, goes even further, asking why we need to increase the population at all. Sydney convenor William Bourke said "Australia's extreme population grown is either causing or exacerbating our economic, environmental, and social problems."
Kevin Rudd says that he believes in a big Australia and is optimistic that the nation's infratructure and environment would cope.
Of course Hornsby Shire's strategy to rezone Beecroft to five storeys is predicated on the Federal government's assertion that the population will continue to expand rapidly for at least the next fifteen years. Wouldn't it be a pity if we built all these new houses and nobody came?
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