Not me.

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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/no-one-wants-big-australia-dick-sm...

yes, I'ld go for a lower popn than we presently have.

pretty well ALL the infrastructure problems would be gone.
housing would be cheaper.

there are no benefits to doubling our popn.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 24^th, 2010 at 9:18pm:


Sprint, why you and Dick Smith so worried? You guys probably won't even exist by then.

Point 1: It's not that we have no water - it's that we use way too much, and don't have the right infrastructure.  This is a non-issue with a population debate.

Point 2: If Australians can afford to spend billions in food over christmas, and then discard billions in food the next day, then I don't see how they will be "starving" in 100 years, or how we don't have enough to sustain more people.

Point 3: I'm surprised you even published this garbage article - it has communist connotations of direct control on population (i.e 1 child policy).  Are you communist sprint? Or Nazi? I'm confused...

The fact is Australia can sustain a lot more people than it currently has.  It's about smart planning, and yes, about sacrifice.  For example, if Japan, a developed nation, can use recycled water to clean their clothes than it makes no sense that we can't.  Why do we always believe we are so blessed? It's Nazi Germany thinking.

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Why do you make no sense. Why is everything a non-issue to you?

Point 1.
Australia is the driest continent on earth and we are already moving to desalination to service the population that we already have. Using your leftwing method of strict control and access (we use way too much) will not solve any problem

Point 2.
This doesn't make sense. Please come back and try to formulate a reasonable reposnse

Point 3.
Questioning his right to publish said article is far more Nazi and Communist like. I am not surprised, coming from you.

Alewives does because it suit her ideology of a large population of low socio-economic voter base

freediver wrote on Jan 25^th, 2010 at 8:00pm:


My point exactly freediver.  I'm not suggesting third world living; I'm suggesting that it is inevitable our population will grow. With it growing, we need to not whinge and cry but rather get prepared, and yes in some ways change our lifestyle..

*EDIT* My apologies freediver - I didn't completely read your post.  I agree with you 100%.  It is whether we want to.  For the sake of people around the world, not just Australia, I truly hope we do. I hope you do too.

Hi Alewives

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That would be the fault of the state Labor govts getting into bed with the Greens
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So you do advocate third world lifestyles. Good to know.
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Are you unable to formulate your own argument?
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I know this will surprise you but the world is often shades of grey- not just the black and white progressive and repressive society you would wish upon all.

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Not true. Most first world nations have a birth rate below the replacement level. It is only the stubborn refusal of old people to kick the bucket, and high immigration rates, that keeps the population rising.

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You hope I do what? I do not want a higher population. What is the point of that?

http://www.un.org/popin/icpd/newslett/94_19/icpd9419.eng/3briefs.html

http://www.un.org/popin/icpd/conference/bkg/egypt.html

NEWS IN BRIEF



More than 300 lawmakers from 107 countries gathered at Cairo's Meridien

Hotel on 3 and 4 September for the International Conference of

Parliamentarians on Population and Development (ICPPD). After a series

of working group discussions, they adopted by consensus the Cairo

Declaration on Population and Development.



     The declaration stresses the importance of a successful outcome at

ICPD, and calls for placing family planning in the broader framework of

reproductive health and removing barriers to family planning

information and services. It also endorses the education goals of the

ICPD Programme of Action, emphasizes "the right of all people to have

access to primary health care by the end of the current decade", and

acknowledges abortion as a major public health concern.



     ICPPD was convened by the Asian Forum on Population and

Development, the Inter-American Parliamentary Group on Population and

Development, the International Medical Parliamentarians Organization,

the Global Committee of Parliamentarians on Population and Development,

and Parliamentarians for Global Action.



     Speaking at the 3 September inaugural ceremony were ICPD

Secretary-General Dr. Nafis Sadik; Dr. Mustafa Kamal Helmy, Speaker of

the Shoura Council of Egypt, the President of the conference; Mr. Shin

Sakurai, Member of the Japanese House of Representatives and Secretary-

General of the conference; and Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, Director-General

of the World Health Organization.



                                 *



In connection with ICPD, United Nations Radio has produced six 15-

minute programmes on population issues:



     "Population and Development" looks at the link between population

growth, sustainable development and consumption; "Reproductive Rights

and Health" examines the right to decide on family size and the

importance of counselling and access to counselling about both

sexuality and family planning services; "Gender Equality" analyses how

respect for women may be one of the best ways of stabilizing population

growth; "Focus on Adolescents" discusses the consequences of early

sexual activity and the importance of making available to teenagers

information and counselling about sexuality; "Male Responsibility"

looks at the importance of encouraging men to take responsibility for

their sexual and reproductive behaviour as well as for the children

they have; and "Migration" examines the growing phenomenon of people

leaving their places of origin to escape conflict or persecution or to

seek a better life.



     All six of the programmes are available in English, Spanish and

Swahili (four programmes are available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese,

Dutch, French, French Creole, Hindi, Indonesian, Russian and Urdu) on

request from UN Radio, Room S-850F, United Nations, New York, NY 10017;

tel. 212-963-6977; fax 212-963-1307.



                                 *



To disseminate ICPD materials and facilitate world-wide involvement in

Conference-related activities, the Population Information Network

(POPIN) of the UN Population Division set up a communication and

reference centre at the Conference site. Staff members collected all

the statements given in the ICPD plenary and electronically placed the

texts in the POPIN gopher, a data facility accessible through the

Internet computer network and electronic mail.



     A large number of delegates, journalists and NGOs used the

centre's services to make copies of the statements and other population

information; thousands of others around the world electronically

accessed the information in the gopher. Technical support for the

centre was provided by the Information and Decision Support Centre of

the Egyptian Cabinet and the Association for Progressive Communication.

For more information, contact Population Division, Department for

Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, 2 United Nations

Plaza, New York, NY 10017; tel. 212-963-3179; fax 212-963-2147; e-mail

popin@undp.org.



                                 *



Four independent daily newspapers on ICPD were produced in Cairo for

distribution at the Conference. All four offered up-to-date reports on

activity in the plenary and Main Committee, as well as analyses of the

issues under negotiation, interviews with participants, and background

articles from around the world on a variety of population and

development topics.



     The papers are: "The Earth Times", published in English by the New

York-based Earth Times Foundation; "Terra Viva", published in English

by the Inter Press Service, a non-profit association of journalists