case of government pandering to the wishes of business, and to the detriment of the people they supposedly represent. Since when do businesses vote? Oh that's right, they give donations to political parties. Silly me. Richard : 23 Dec 2010 6:56:10am Love the line 'voting with their loins'! However, I am not sure that is what happened: I think a lot of couples just decided to minimise their family for reasons to do with convenience and decided to leave breeding for Australia to someone else. I am not saying this was wrong, but I don't think that most decisions to use the Pill or a condom were the result of any consideration of the optimum population for Australia Zoltar : 24 Dec 2010 1:25:51pm Richard and Casper, I agree that we can not know with certainty the full calculus as to why a generation of Australians have elected to restrain their breeding. And I'm not going to dispute that economic considerations are a factor, but I believe it goes beyond this. When faced with an unwanted pregnancy, fewer than 100 Australian women each year choose to have the child, and surrender it for adoption to a stranger. Whereas there are in the vicinity of 100,000 abortions each year, most of which are for non medical reasons. Economic considerations will play a factor in the decision of many of these women, but for a few percent (which equates to thousands) the decision has nothing to do with money or who the