Comments on: 50 million Australians

By: paul walter

paul walter — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:58:09 +0000

Yep, another miserable politician belly-aching, because “water auctions” for new cotton-growing were knocked back by a teetering Turnbull. This AFTER the Climate Centre had issued its September report describing Southern Australia as remaining in Deep Drought.
It is a sick dogma, economic rationalism.
Ecological and economic reality; productivity and sustainability remain subordinate to brainless neoliberal “development at any costs” theology and wide-eyed zealotry ( or is this just plain ol’fashioned greed? ), while the country goes to hell in a handbasket.

By: Dee Bain

Dee Bain — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:49:18 +0000

I agree 100% with Judith Melville, Beattie is just in the game of headline grabbing; he has to be, with such an assine statement. 50Mil indeed, The Gov/Private Sector cannot house the population we have, nor supply the infrastructure; water; essentials? unless we all live like ants & die like ants…Sub-Saharan Africa; Indian Sub continent; China; we have plenty of “Ideal Models” to choose from. Banana Republic anybody?? -

By: Judith M. Melville

Judith M. Melville — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:43:45 +0000

Fifty million? The man’s delusional. Australia is living off marginal agricultural land as it is and, has no water security for its current population.
Well, it won’t be NSW Clarence River catchment water which will be fueling any increase in Queensland’s population, no matter what diversion scheme Messrs. Howard and Turnbull might still be privately pushing.

By: Jason Wilson

Jason Wilson — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:08:44 +0000

I seem to recall Jim Soorley, when he was Lord Mayor of Brisbane, also arguing for a massive increase in Australia’s and more particularly Brisbane’s population on the grounds that it would produce economies of scale, assisting efforts to build a viable public transport infrastructure and suchlike. Could it be that a larger population would make it more cost-effective to build water infrastructure, etc?

By: Yendis

Yendis — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:45:33 +0000

Well the climate change can be discounted for a start. There’s no evidence for that statement.
50 million? That’s for Queensland alone of course. The other states will immediately copy and emulate such a change. Will relieve the population problems in India and China.
Only trouble is we shall still have governments like Beattie, Iemmema, Brumby etc…