our politicians can see what we think about it. Phil : 25 Dec 2010 3:51:20am Unfortunately, the mass media is a big business and will not report on such events. They see population growth as a foolproof way to increase viewers and therefore profits, and because of government licensing (for TV) there is no risk of increased competition from the same population growth they advocate. Nice for them! ABC (TV) and SBS are coerced into towing the population growth messages because they are paranoid about being called "biased" by the for-profit media. Evil Genius : 24 Dec 2010 9:12:27am Excellent article Simon, thank you. Yes our so called leaders should enter a non partisan, non political conversation with Australia regarding population but that is asking for the pie in the sky with sauce please. Just not going to happen. The minders, spin merchants and faceless men will never allow their sock puppets to speak frankly and openly and also neither will the sockpuppets themselves because the media and blogosphere I may add, will pounce on their words and twist and turn them beyond recognition, distorting the message beyond anything that resembles the truth. It would take enormous courage, fortitude and a dam good debator/orator to stand up and smack down the forces of distortion and mis-information while at the same time, get the message out to the public who hopefully, at leat 60% will listen and agree. Johno : 24 Dec 2010 7:30:35am You cannot stop population growth unless you