hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Immigration boost for 'skills shortage'
"A paper prepared for the Academy of Social Sciences Experts say the country needs to boost immigration by 30 per cent within the next 20 years to meet its growing work force demand.Professor McDonald says that migration over the next 20 years would need to go up by about 50,000 per year, from about 170,000 to 220,000 each year.
"Later on, after 20 years, it would be going up again to up around 300,000," he said"
"...the notion is that because of increased living standards, because of the need to renew a lot of infrastructure in Australia, because of the ageing of the population - a lot of different reasons - we expect the demand for labour in the future to remain very strong."
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But what about Australia's water and housing shortages, environmental problems, and infrastructure overload?
300,000 people over just ten years is 3 million people, and 15 million over 50 years. That's bucket loads. All of these extra human beings will themselves demand water, wood, houses, energy, and infrastructure like roads, public transport and commercial transport. These extra human beings will contribute further to the in vogue environmental problem of climate change, generally coming to a more consumer intense nation compared with their native lands, but also to less popular environmental problems to do with salinity and biodiversity loss.
Do we really 'need' to overpopulate ourselves?