migration like Iceland or Finland, or a small negative net migration like the Netherlands or Poland? Inadequate infrastructure is a direct result that wishful thinking can't maintain 1st world infrastructure and services to a country growing at 2% per year over time. Those who don't understand the cost of infrastructure are the ignorant ones. Budovski : 23 Dec 2010 8:42:59pm Planning and infrastructure are two things governments now refuse to provide. But besides that how do you plan to help the 30% of animal and plant species that will be wiped out in Australia by population pressure? People aren't simply blaming recent arrivals, they are rightly blaming high levels of immigration, idiotic cash incentives to have children and a government that no longer provides adequately. Sorry Mercurius, for some its easy to pigeon hole anyone that opposes the current record levels of immigration as a some kind of myopic bigot. But it's simply not true. Silver fox : 22 Dec 2010 3:51:11pm It will be fascinating to see how the newly registered Stable Population Party goes at the next federal election, because for the first time the word "population" will appear at the top of the ballot paper and voters will be presented with this option. The Brutal Realist : Nup : While it's important to have a discussion about immigration, it is just as important to have a discussion about the oft-ignored topic of natural population growth. No politician seems willing to broach the issue of whether we should