: 23 Dec 2010 10:25:21pm Well squish up everyone, we need to grow because immigration has been useful in the past. Squish up, squish up, there's more coming. Sorry - you're going to have to live in smaller houses, and spend more time in transit, and your kids won't be able to afford to own their own house, or water their tiny courtyard gardens. We need to have 30% compound population growth to support business, and population diversity. Make room, make room. Everywhere else in the world is overpopulated so Australia should be no different. Hang on, weren't people trying to get away from everywhere else because Australia was different? swinging voter : 23 Dec 2010 10:15:58pm intersting article which seems to hit the big issues. opening statement is a ittle confusing as off shore detention is not really realted to immigration. it would also seem as though the government is harassing very small sections of the community to shoulder almost the entire burden of the immigration quotas. As an engineer I watched 2 thirds of my class drop out of the course.... in a course where the lecturers seem disinterested by Australian born student failure. on exiting the course, immigration department then set quotas to bring more third world migrant engineers into Austrlia than have graduated from Australian universities. large number of professional engineers are rail roaded out of employment each year so that the government can create jobs for migrant engineer so that they can attain quotas. Qld