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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 26229 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: populate or perish Reply #15 - Aug 26^th, 2026 at 1:28pm Better for India to adopt the term "depopulate or perish". See if they can race China to get their population down to 500 million first.
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Reply #16 - Aug 26^th, 2026 at 10:00pm

Dnarever wrote on Aug 26^th, 2026 at 12:33pm:

Carl D wrote on Aug 25^th, 2026 at 11:31am:

Frank wrote on Aug 25^th, 2026 at 10:59am:

Well, you are gay so you would say that.

And here we have a perfect example of why a smaller population would be great.

Just imagine a country filled with Franks.

Oh, wait...

The USA have enough Franks to elect a guy named Don.

You are gay too. Dressed in duck feathers.
You are Leonard to Carl's Derek.

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Reply #17 - Aug 27^th, 2026 at 1:05pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 25^th, 2026 at 8:28pm:

About 30% of our country is foreign born. Migrants sem to have a lower birthrate than Australian born. But, still the government of Australia floods the country with millions of new migrants. And the Australian born are feeling the need to have one less child per family compared to the last generation of Australians. More people in Australia meant that house prices go up to be difficult to pay off.

Maybe I am just part of the low-income Aussie-raised white Generation Xer. However, I won't be confident that my children will be willing to raise children when they cannot afford to buy an overpriced home.

Australia could support a population of 40 million people quite okay. However, the major cities are practically full. Albanese's idiotic pitch to "scrap the regional development" to be metropolitan centric was something that really irked me. If we decentralised industries and had major regional centres producing what is produced in the major cities of Australia, employment opportunities will follow. And then there is a release of population pressure in major cities. Rural and regional areas will develop to their potential.

Yeah? How the hell would you know that? If our cities are bursting at the seams ....

where are all these extra millions going to go?

what are they going to be employed doing?

and who's building the infrastructure to accommodate an extra 11 to 12 million?

Not the idiots at the wheel now that's for sure.

Maybe they'll take the welfare benefits off long term bludgers like you ....

you won't have to worry Mum & Dad will carry the can for you.

You must be an only child because you sure sound like one.

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Reply #18 - Aug 27^th, 2026 at 1:09pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 25^th, 2026 at 9:45pm:

Frank wrote on Aug 25^th, 2026 at 8:38pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 25^th, 2026 at 8:28pm:

About 30% of our country is foreign born. Migrants sem to have a lower birthrate than Australian born. .

Untrue.

Go by any suburban school at 3 pm.

I have. Not that I really pay attention to students walking out of school grounds -- according to the police officer who booked me for doing a couple of km/h under the speed limit outside of a school zone. Yet, I live in a regional town. If you live in one of the major cities, you are probably looking at migrants' grandchildren exiting the school grounds. I bet their parents are mainly Australian born.

Migrants in the Sydney region, according to an ABC news segment a few months ago, have fewer than 1 child per family. Given Sydney's low birth rate, much of the low birth rates are attributed to new migrants who are here to take advantage of employment opportunities.

You live in a city of 85,000 people.

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Reply #19 - Aug 27^th, 2026 at 1:25pm

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Singapore became one of the entry and dispersal points for a large number of Chinese and Indian migrants who came to work in the plantations and mines of the Straits Settlements, some of whom then settled in Singapore after their contracts ended. By 1860, the total population had reached around 90,000, of these 50,000 were Chinese, and 2,445 Europeans and Eurasians. The first thorough census in Singapore was undertaken in 1871, and it showed that Chinese were the largest ethnic group at 57.6%. In 1901, the total population of Singapore was 228,555, with 15.8% Malays, 71.8% Chinese, 7.8% Indians, and 3.5% Europeans and Eurasians.
The Chinese population of Singapore has stayed at over 70% of the total ever since.

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Reply #20 - Aug 28^th, 2026 at 1:55am

Gnads wrote on Aug 27^th, 2026 at 1:05pm:

Yeah? How the hell would you know that? If our cities are bursting at the seams ....

where are all these extra millions going to go?

what are they going to be employed doing?

and who's building the infrastructure to accommodate an extra 11 to 12 million?

Not the idiots at the wheel now that's for sure.

Maybe they'll take the welfare benefits off long term bludgers like you ....

you won't have to worry Mum & Dad will carry the can for you.

You must be an only child because you sure sound like one.

Did you read the part where I wrote "If we decentralised industries and had major regional centres producing what is produced in the major cities of Australia, employment opportunities will follow. And then there is a release of population pressure in major cities. Rural and regional areas will develop to their potential"?

The idea being that we grow the towns, rather than the cities. But, with Albo focused on keeping the industries and employment opportunities mainly in the major cities, regional centres have to rely on mining and other primary industries to keep afloat.

At least 17 million Australians live in the major cities, out of a total of 27 million. I don't expect that we keep trying to grow the cities. But that seems to be the game plan of the federal and state governments. Regional towns and minor cities could probably double or triple in population over the next 50 years and take the pressure off cities. But we are not going to be able to do that if the employment opportunities are not there.

As for your personal insults, it is not necessary. Why are you such a whingeing bitch, anyway? You should just rock up to Dan Murphy's and grab yourself a large bottle of bourbon and just have an afternoon and evening boozing away. Maybe then you will settle down and have a new perspective of things.

Mum and Dad have received an offer on this house. But they are waiting for me to leave before they consider any offer. I will be getting a second job soon, anyway. That will mean that I will have to reorganise my current part-time job around this new full-time job. And I will have to scrap the upcoming training in a related job that I was going to do next month.

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Reply #21 - Aug 28^th, 2026 at 1:56am

Gnads wrote on Aug 27^th, 2026 at 1:09pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 25^th, 2026 at 9:45pm:

Frank wrote on Aug 25^th, 2026 at 8:38pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 25^th, 2026 at 8:28pm:

About 30% of our country is foreign born. Migrants sem to have a lower birthrate than Australian born. .

Untrue.

Go by any suburban school at 3 pm.

I have. Not that I really pay attention to students walking out of school grounds -- according to the police officer who booked me for doing a couple of km/h under the speed limit outside of a school zone. Yet, I live in a regional town. If you live in one of the major cities, you are probably looking at migrants' grandchildren exiting the school grounds. I bet their parents are mainly Australian born.

Migrants in the Sydney region, according to an ABC news segment a few months ago, have fewer than 1 child per family. Given Sydney's low birth rate, much of the low birth rates are attributed to new migrants who are here to take advantage of employment opportunities.

You live in a city of 85,000 people.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

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