Will Australia cope with the rise of mega cities? Australia 2050 (part 2) | 7.30
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- Cities are where most pressures are being felt because they draw almost 90 per cent of migrants.
To help ease the strain in Australia's biggest capital, Sydney, it'll soon be divided into three separate cities.
But, as Andy Park reports, not everyone's convinced that high-density living goes hand in hand with the quality of life Australians have come to expect.
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There is no jobs boom in Australia, we have declining industry and jobs are being outsourced offshore. The official unemployed rate is 5.6% but this figure is fudged and the real figure is significantly higher and the youth unemployment is quoted as 25%. We also pay around $15 billion per annum in welfare payments to non Australian citizens with the current migrant work participation rate of only 66%. Your maths will not add up that migrants working will be our saving grace and keep welfare afloat. There is a finite number of jobs so there is a finite number of taxpayers and this can not keep pace with current levels of migration.
WTF
@BikeStuff
Indeed, it'll be fun to watch these naive idiot liberals as the pension age gets raised repeatedly.
@ethical
"WTF" is not an argument.
As the years go on, jobs available shall decrease due to the exponential growth of automation/ai development
@@jackhawthorn4799 WTF is that Bike stuff copied & re-posted my previous comment to someone else as his own That's WTF!
Oh i see - a comment stealer...........
This is the crime of the century and you blew it wide open.
Dick Smith is right. We do not need more people if we want to have good living standards. Modern technology allows people to do more. Politicians and Big business want more people for more profits and self interest.
More people=more wealth to distribute. Egalitarian leads to the majority being poor and that's why communist countries fail. There is a misconception that more people creates more jobs, in-fact it doesn't it causes division and people fighting for resources. immigrants is the trojan horse that will destroy Australia values.
that self interest is "big development" like the US.Industrial societies are a cancer on this planet.Concrete,bitumen,steel,nuclear power even wind farms and solar power(batteries)is temporary and affects the environment.Continues mining here and abroad is hazardous to all life besides our attitude to all other species with reside with.
They don't care about who you are, just numbers moving around. Main thing is aslong as you can't afford to live next door to them. Large Increase in the cheap office labour coming from India taking jobs for 50-60k replacing the workforce of 80-90k making them redundant. No payrises more redundancy, no budget sorry. The greed is just unlimited. Your to expensive for Australia. Cost of living going up pays are going down, move your extended family into one house and live like the immigrants just to make it here. Eat rice and noodles.
I had to laugh at the man who said we could have 200 million. I'm sure it's possible after a trillion or so dollars spent on major infrastructure projects to sustain such a ridiculous population.However, you have to ask yourself why? Why would you want to have a population so large? Why would you want to damage the environment even further? Why would you want to live like a rat in an overcrowded city? why why why? Those who promote growth have a financial interest.
How's St Petersburg you troll? ;)
@Aaron Yah,give them a home in the asian enclave where they can all get along like the happy campers they are. lol
No-one voted for ‘Big Australia’.
They have to go back
Who’s ‘they’?
anyone not from here
like the white people from Europe?
I include the population of both those that are born here and those that are not in my statement. Just to be clear.......
Dick's right!
What about, we don't have the;
- Water
- Infrastructure
- Housing, or
- Jobs
Don't you understand?
So we should "simply" stop all immigration, right?
Yes, Need 10 year embargo to allow catch up
Skilled migration only.
@Lee Roberts Ah! So you've changed you position from the first video? Progress!
Nope. Read my comments, I've always said, skilled migrants only! When I say "stop immigration now" - it refers to mass unskilled immigration.
The real danger is endless urban sprawl
The real danger is increased population. To put more dwellings into a city you have to build up, or out, or increase the density. All three options are a drop in living standard.
Watch it ghettoize..this'll be a laugh in fifteen years..shodddy mcmansions falling down, gangs and meth labs..nice one Australia..
rowb early So you can choose between converting these people into aussies or just trying to limit the ability of Australia to have a larger population. I mean America did it and it is a superpower
HAVE YOU been TO THE US??? SUPERPOWER?? Uh huh..they get caned by shepherds and rice farmers, Russia and China ignore them, their cities are falling apart, gang violence and ghettos everywhere, rampant fear and racism, homelessness and incarceration rates through the roof..and you want to slavishly copy THAT??? The US is riven with racial tensions, poverty and urban AND rural decay..there are no manufacturing jobs, services cannot soak up that many poor people, the water isn't there in AUS. and domestic food production isn't keeping pace..and what,exactly, is the Benefit OF A HUGE POPULATION???
No offence, internet warrior, but have these ghettos actually ever happened in the real-world?. I moved into a multi-cultural 'McMansion' suburb in Sydney in the 1980s. My house is still standing and neighbors have been great.
Internet warrior? It's a public comment section,precious...dry those eyes. I didn't reference immigrants at all..stop trying to strawman me with your one trick virtue signal. Ghettoizing means lack of services, crumbling infrastructure, a dearth of jobs. Yes, they happen, (DUH) look at Logan in Qld, or many parts of western Sydney and Sth East Melbourne today. Maybe you need to get out more.
Glad to hear from an expert on political psychology..University of "I reckon" with a PHD in finger pointing ,majoring in copying the seppos?
Anne Evans, demographer, "So, if we want to have more people coming in to cities ..." Who is this 'We'? We don't want it. It is being forced on us. I know of no-one, except paid internet trolls who challenge anyone who speaks their mind on this, who appear to 'want' this. People are horribly depressed and tramatised by what is being inflicted upon them by developers who have infiltrated the main political parties and basically taken over government and the media.
By 2050 Australia will be uninhabitable, like many other places in our world
Actually yeah maybe
To those thinking ‘white Straya!’ If we imported the same number of Europeans, we’d have the same housing problem.
@@Amateur_Pianist_472 except the Europeans would actually contribute and likely help the industry build houses
This is a disaster waiting to happen. One of the driest countries on earth. What happens when the water gets low?
It gets very violent very quickly.
Yep they talk about how huge australia is, saying we can accept tons of immigrants but we dont have any water
@@cocoacoolness We must plant trees.
@Cold Water Do they have as much farm land as us though? That is where a large proportion of our water goes. Mining uses lots of water too i heard. There is also the issue with transporting it accross such a huge country, water in the middle of nowhere isnt much use to us hey? We have so many reigons where people are constantly on water restrictions.
@Cold Water Note that we also need that many water resources because we go into a drought every year for most of the year....
Building and designing cities designed around PEOPLE instead of the AUTOMOBILE should be one of our main priorities moving forward.
Correct! Send the lot of them to the Netherlands for school. Private road vehicles are given the lowest priority in residential areas behind (in reverse order) public transport, cycling paths and walking space.
The trouble is our middle and outer suburbs are 'exurbs' that is, places which are built around the car. Few or no footpaths, segmentation of industry/retail/education/health etc... We'd have to rework all these exurbs to make communities more walkable/rideable.
Yeah she'll be right I reckon
So you want a mega city with congestion, so you can take a high-speed rail to another mega-city, with congestion.
Think Tokyo actually
I totally understand where Dick Smith is coming from! I grew up in a house with a backyard. You go to Melbourne for a holiday and opposite your hotel are appartments where there are families with children that have no backyard to play in. Really sad!
Houses near the city are overpriced.
Yes they do. It's called parks, which are usually in abundance in Australian cities. It's time for nostalgic Australians like Dick Smith to realize you cannot have a 1-2 storey house with a giant backyard/ frontyard in the city anymore. The only way to sustain higher populations is through high-density developments.
Orginally from Melbourne now live outside Toowoomba. Happy as a pig in sh#+ Hate the traffic
Sydney an Melbourne are already over populated same as UK can't move
To sustainably double Australia's population growth without compromising living standards by 2050, you can start by sacking all the Accountants and Lawyers in top bureaucratic positions and replace them with skilled engineers who should hold the top public office or government jobs in the Country.
The problem with most apartments is they are too small! Most blocks of units are too densely packed with 1 and 2 bed units. If they are really serious about high density then where are 3 or 4 bed apartments with multiple living rooms? They dont exist because they make more off smaller apartments and there is no council or government forcing a change. How can you raise 2 or 3 kids in a 2 bed apartment? Why should we have to do that in australia for crying out loud.
Jeff Brislane because if you want to live near the city, you live in a termite mound. Bigger apartments need more space. Smaller apartments are better for new home owners because they’re cheaper. Yes kids can share a room, our ancestors did it. 3 and 4 bedroom apartments do exist, they’re just more expensive.
greed is the answer
In an already over populated world why should we put up with couples having 2 - 3 children for crying out loud.
this will become slums in 10yrs mostly housing comission i worked in construction for 10yrs have never seen so much doggy work in my life every apartment cut cost pour extra 100litres of water on the concrete pour ect...do not touch this apartment's many bought of the plan.
A 1sr world country is unlikely to have slums
One of the solutions I think is to develop more jobs, housing and infrastructure in regional cities/towns and have better rail transport connections with major cities to ease the pressure on our major cities. But I doubt the politicians will ever consider it coz they're only there for the lifetime pension they will get after 3-4 years in office.
Just imagine developing a high speed rail network connecting rural suburban towns to the city. This means the only high rises are commercial buildings and we can continue our standard of living except with a daily train trip
don't you mean 2 years, there not very good at keeping there jobs.
@@Ghorda9 True, but still gonna get their lifetime pensions.
@@davesdinnerz9243 This solution is known as "urban sprawl". It covers agricultural land and wildlife habitat with roofs and roads. Economic growth is ruining Australia.
Take a look at China and India they have HUGE challenges with their populations. You can't keep growing without loosing what you had. More laws, more regulations, more government in your face. We will loose what makes Australia, Australia. Stop using and manipulating veiwers emotion as an argument reporter and think with your head for once.
That's why there escaping here.
Poor planning by poor government decade after decade.
"poor planning" by greedy US corporate interests wanting Australian resources and development/land.
All those who we’re interviewed as being a fan of high density living - don’t chose to do so for themselves - but it’s ok for everyone else. It’s ok - the upcoming housing crash will force reform - and that is sustainable living. Open up regional areas - encourage families to move out of the cities and
Have the ability to raise there children out of the big cities if they wish to.
Aussie families will move to the regions if house prices in Melbourne & Sydney don't crash. We have no choice otherwise!
Human Bean spot on bud - no choice - which would actually be the correct choice if forced to do so :)
1st ISSUE ; Denial , Australia in general , needs to ADMIT there is a Problem , only then can we move forward.
Aus is such a big country definitely has room for more people, what is lack is an effective public train system and management that connected well to inner areas efficiently. if so, who will mine living in Wagga Wagga. lol
London had an underground rail system started in the 1860s, stop talking about doubling our population until you start getting our roads and railways in better condition. We need to get around.
Yay!! Lets turn Australia into Brazil
apart from having a larger pallet of different foods to pick from at lunchtime, what actually is the point of immigration? my family are immigrants from italy after the second world war and they are grateful that they came here and started a new life for themselves coming from nothing. But in all honesty our family should have stayed in our homecountry and helped try to rebuild it, alot of my family still identify as italian and while i was born here and love this country more. If people carry such a large portion of their previous country with them to a new place then what is the point of migrating in the first place!
green lamp Oh gee I dunno , maybe it’s to increase your population so you can be more powerful have more manpower , more researchers etc.
Your family converted to become Australian , we can do the same to other immigrants.
A young country requires manpower, the usa millitary could wipe us out but it would end up a bloody ceasefire after the costal ports are destroyed, usa would not bother to fight a ground incursion in the outback.
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 why even bother talking about the USA? When have we even been a thorn in their side let alone someone worth attacking? We're as likely to be attacked by America as we are by martians and martians either don't exist or are bacteria at this point. Way to bring relevance to the topic.
Us run-of-the-mill Aussies get absolutely nothing out of mass immigration.
@anonymous patriot my partner is the daughter of Chinese migrants. She was born in Australia, worked hard, and is now a doctor and practicing for all the right reasons you'd hope someone enters medicine. Asian cultures tend to push their children to strive more than most others and as such are pretty beneficial members of society.
I do agree that the sheer number is probably a bit high. But they're just as Aussie after a generation as British immigrants.
My point about keeping numbers low enough to avoid a culture within a culture forming.
We have already built suburbs over our best growing land. Then there is the water supply. The last 100 years have been the wettest for milenia and we are still running out of water
Just because Australia is big doesnt mean it can support endless population growth. There isnt enough fresh water and farming land to support that
Decentralisation of job opportunities is the first thing that needs to happen, however, due to Australia's love of having EVERYTHING within 10km of the CBD, eventually, Australia is going to have people driving 100km to their job every day...
Everybody complains about Population. In reality it is only one component. Look at China close to 2 billion people yet they have Maglev trains traveling at close to 450km, bullet trains traveling at 350km, Rapid articulated bus systems (BRT) that cost 10 less than trams but can carry the same amount as trains and more. Infrastructure and transport needs have been neglected, every year we spend 35 billion dollars on defence and for the next 10 years federal infrastructure investment plan is 75 billion that is 5 times less each year than defence. 7.5 billion federal dollars,roughly every year for 10 years, for infrastructure vs 35 billion federal dollars for defence. Over 10 years defence would cost 350 billion federal dollars and infrastructure 75 billion federal dollars. Yes we need defence but who are we fighting? Camels, emus or kangaroos?
Hamidi Maqtal probably will end up fighting China to be fair
What % of this years foreigner's will ever export more than they import and why is this an important question?
Do you want Australian citizans to be commodities? Infrastructure means shit if the workers have poor wages and working conditions. Public infrastructure indicates how powerful the state is, it doesn't mean the citizans are wealthy. The chinese people are manufacture like animals and are currency/commodity to the state. Australia shouldn't be following the path of China, but clearly it is by wanting big population and high immigration. Australia needs to cut spending on foreign aid and climate change bs (400million to the GBR) and increase the spending on military/defense. You don't sound patriotic when you're whinging about defense spending. It amazes me that is the first area you went to, do you want other countries to invade Australia? Are you one of those snowflakes that is leeching off the welfare and healthcare ? SOunds like another snowflake or immigrant taking advantage of tax payers. I'm sorry to sound so blunt, but you sound like a douche bag who doesn't support Australian values or have respect for the people in the military. You do realize that money goes towards defense technological, training staff, helping countries,etc. I'm not in the military but I do know that the 35billion dollar that you've said isn't just spent on people sitting at desks all day waiting for the paycheck. which can't be said about abc, welfare and healthcare.
Whats the average Chinese citizen labor wage and what kind of healthy living lifestyle do they enjoy,what's the average family size (including pets),how much slef sustaing food can each citizen grow for sustanance (on average) ?
Not another freakin military industrial complex.Get real! US is on the brink already New need a new level of environmentally friendly society who works with nature not against it.Pollution is rampant all over the globe.ua-cam.com/video/McrytYdId5M/v-deo.html
"London / Paris is highly attractive community to live in", look at these LIES on national Television
why do you say it is a lie?
I have seen pics of Paris. It looks like a hole. I been to London so I know that it is an absolute hole of a place. Hordes of people everywhere. The only people who want to live in London are the migrants from other overpopulated third world hell-holes.
@@steveknight4291 don't mind him, his racism is showing
I was in London in July this year. Stayed for 7 nights in a hotel at Tower Hill.
Loved it, apart from 1)getting decent coffee, and 2) I heard about famous Bond St shopping.
Both were very overrated! 😂
So you only had to be there for 7 nights and in a hotel. Hardly a basis for reasonable assessment.
There is absolutely no need to growth, is not sustainable. perpetual growth is not indication of economic success.
Maxx_thor Games there is 100% a need for growth. Without growth the false lifestyle most live is in sustainable and what they fail to mention in this all is that we live in a pyramid scheme.
You can not retire in 20 years(or wherever) without a bigger working population in place to replace you and fund you. Then when they retire the cycle continues, they need a bigger working population to sustain them and you..
Just a big pyramid scheme to keep the wheels of the machine rolling that keeps pumping out the $$ for the 1% filthy rich of the planet.
They don't drive to work of have to deal with congestion in their bubbles
@@mrbla9783 and is wrong
Exactly, Growth doesn't means better well-being of people
blame your Aussie govt's immigration policies, not the immigrants who mostly came in legally.
Thumbs up
Who said we wanted you to come?
The idea of new refugees going regional is dumb because we shouldn’t be building out but rather up in the city. Like A mini New York, that way the farm land and cheap realestate isn’t effected.. The government should promote investment into mega city appartment high risers. My dad bought a house in 1983 for $7000 , big land and nice house in the Bush. Now it is $1,000,000 I got over $40,000 saved up and I can’t do anything.. this is the Australia that exist now I’ll be 70 working. Australia need to stand up and look at what matters. It isn’t refugees that we need, it isn’t stupidity, its freedom for anyone to be able to buy a house and to have options.
Finally someone said it.
Akelleca Lobby you local politician to end foreign property purchased and immigration. Asking government s to build housing is asking the community.to fund housing, that won't happen. Also, do you really want to live in high rise?
Bit hard without water.
Coffee Drinker Melbourne is running without raining for 2 weeks. And it goes around.
Roads cannot cope now. Here in Newcastle, they keep building more houses/units but the power grid, sewer, water supply, roads & shop carparks are staying the same. How can you introduce 20K more people to a area that can hardly cope with the current population?
@Error Eliminator No,people are blaming the government for being clueless for bringing large amounts of immigrants into the country without having the the appropriate infrastructure,funds,and foreplanning to even remotely deal with the situation fairly for both current citizens and future citizens.
While also dealing out foreign aid left right and centre.Everyone is suffering except the politicians and banks wallet.
I think migrants took over a lot of the public service particularly the immigration department in the 1990s so that is why the boom has happened and the ministers have just let it happen as they benefit from it.
@Error Eliminator I'm clearly blaming the federal government for their uselessness over the fifty years of my lifetime and betrayal of both the host population AND the hopeful immigrants who have a true need of asylum/refuge .The only blame I place on immigrants is for those that have deceitfully abused Australia's welfare systemand support .. while also harboring the blatant ill will and treatment many of them enact on the host population AND even their own communities.
FURTHERMORE I STRESS
That this blame is thrown directly at the immigrants that are abusing the system and not the legit hard studying/working immigrants that actually want to be Australians for Australia,or the asylum seekers and/or refugees that are being legitimately abused/persecuted in their country of origins.I would hope though that when/if their countries return to a state they are able to safely return and build a better future for that country ..that they SHOULD make every attempt,with the help of our own government to return to their origin and build a better future for themselves and their offspring.
That is all =P
We need to start creating rural suburban communities connected up to major cities by high speed rail. This would allow for suburban sprawl and cities to become less compacted and continue aiming to be commercial hubs (which is the only good reason cities exist). Nearly half of Australia's population lives in the Sydney-Melbourne corridor, at least start a high speed rail there.
more growth the wealthier the developers and investors become. they don't care as they wont live in the areas effected . unfortunately infrastructure (sewerage ,power, water and roads ) cost so much now that high rise is the cheapest option . I am just concerned water ,having been thru a number of water restrictions from the 50's to today there is no plan to contain or gather more water . having struggle with council over water tanks I think the high growth head in the sand strategy will lead to chaos. power now is still climbing in cost and green power is even more expensive . we need more street smart people to lead this country as Uni smart just aren't cutting it .
lol that final point about fairness and morality made me laugh! It is about money for the wealthy, duh!
I think developer building bridges and infrastructure is one of the key elements they should provide. Most developers build only buildings, sell or rent all the units and get all the profit and then ask the government to build roads, bridges and everything else that doesn't produce any profit. All development projects should provide connections to closest station, highway, etc.
Remember the developers have to abide by state and local government regulation,. The developers will make as much profit as they're allowed to, that's the capitalist system. But if you put too many requirements on their investment into infrastructure that then raises the cost and ultimately our house prices. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.
How bad does it have to get ? Anyone been to Sydney lately ? used the light rail? No offence , Its like living in asia , spot the Ozy , if you can .. then go west , Lakemba area looks like the middle east , and other parts of the city are swamped with Indians , include nearly every service stations. We are creating countries within a country. Very few minority assimilate , they open business and only employ their own , once a business is bought by chinese t will never go back into Australian ownership . The Ignorance displayed is astounding , logic dictates more people , more problems , more takers than givers teabagging resources , those who think they wont be affected are deluded , Australia and Europe are changing , not for the beetter.
Australia is a country of Immigrants unless you’re indigenous. They have a citizenship, they’re “Aussie”.
@@thenextchrislawrence A piece of paper may say that , but that does not make it so. If you want to be AUSTRALIAN , shouldnt the Country come first , behave like an Australian and be proud of Australia way of life ? trying to change any of that , or putting another first is not Australian. I love Italy always , but now I am ozy mate, AUSTRALIA 1st.
ShazMilaz regardless of what you think you cannot deny that even Indigenous Australians are being quickly replaced by Indians and Chinese, except only non Indian and non-Chinese Australian citizens are speaking up against this which people like yourself deny
I couldn't give a rat's ass about Australia but you know what amazes me the most... Australian politicians care less about Australia and Australians than I do.
Funny how the developers are alwayswe need more people. The regular folks are saying that please stop lol
All migrants to this country unfortunately settle into 2 cities....Melbourne and Sydney because there is no jobs and proper services in other parts of the country.....unless you fly in fly out to mines.
Okay is this just Dick Smith flying around saying not in my backyard?
Growth on a finite planet will only lead to human extinction. People are coming to Australia mostly to escape the pollution, wars, droughts or overcrowding in their own countries. Developers, investors and politicians are welcoming them with open arms for profit and power. This is not about immigration. It’s about corporate greed. Instead of growing Australia’s population let’s help fix the countries the people are coming so they don’t need to leave in the first place. Australia has enough people based on available resources.
Literally none of that is true. About 1/4 of the immigrants to arrive every year are from the UK with Italy, China, New Zealand and other developed, peaceful countries making up most of the rest. Folks fleeing war-torn or poor counties largely don't come to Australia. We're on the ass end of the Earth. It's kind of expensive to immigrate here.
Our population is growing because our economy relies on it. We've got too many jobs and not enough specialists to fill them so we actively recruit from overseas. It's kind of a big deal. Even without changing our lifestyle we could support a population of 40,000,000 according to QUT's tool. And that doesn't take into account the obvious increases in infrastructure that would accompany that growth so we likely can support much more.
Even if this was all corporate greed and our economy didn't rely on constantly increasing our population, even if we were full and even if most immigrants here came from poor or dangerous countries, none of which is true I'll remind you, you can't just "fix" these problems. The issues that face poor and dangerous places are complex. If they weren't they would have been solved long ago. You can't just fix them especially as an outsider. It doesn't work like that.
David John You are incorrect. Search “demographic winter”.
@@uzziya6392 The refugee intake program has brought hundreds of thousands of people here, they also have many children. White flight is a reality in many places, and there are neighbourhoods where English is a rarity and foreigners dominate. You're in denial.
40 million people would drastically change the lifestyle of many people. That must be a joke. Most of the jobs that need filling aren't specialist jobs, at least not to a large degree. Even then we only need to import people while we train our own people, which we don't do because that would require more kids and better educational policies and government is too lazy for that. And why exactly would anyone want to have kids while knowing that the government wants to replace you?
If the economy relies on cramming more people in then it's a garbage economy and deserves to crash. And one way to help fix the problems of the world is by stopping the importation of skilled people: Somalian doctors might be very good but Somalia needs them more than Australia does.
Immigration except in small and restricted amounts is never a good thing and never a solution.
@@no-body-22 That's a lot of assertions but you're not backing that up with anything.
*"White flight is a reality in many places, and there are neighbourhoods where English is a rarity and foreigners dominate"*
*"40 million people would drastically change the lifestyle of many people"*
*"Most of the jobs that need filling aren't specialist jobs, at least not to a large degree"*
Do you have a citation for any of that? I backed up my claims using QUT's migrant and population tool. Best I can tell you just made this up based on nothing.
That's not how importation of skilled labour works in Australia. Education is our third largest industry (FYI the first and second are coal and iron ore respectively). People from well off families come here from overseas for university and a certain percentage of them stay after graduation. That's why our largest immigrant populations are all from Europe, New Zealand and China. Poorer countries don't really factor in other than those that arrive to areas where they have family ties and large pre-existing immigrant populations - that basically means Indians from the old colonial days, Greeks from Melbourne's nonsense in the 1800's and Vietnamese from the refugees we took in from the Vietnam war. And none of those are even in the top three in terms of number of migrants. Australia's an expensive place. It's expensive to live here and it's expensive to migrate here.
Doctors from Somalia simply don't form a large enough demographic to make a dent. We have lots of people from overseas training to be a doctor here specifically because of how good our education is (I have no clue where you got the idea that the government doesn't invest heavily into education). The specialist jobs we offer visas for aren't normally those that require ultra-high qualifications though. Most of it are specialist labour like farm and railway workers. The kind of thing where you need labour on mass. The government doesn't want to replace you much less leave you uneducated while an immigrant takes your job. I have no idea where you got that impression. The Australian government invests heavily in job creation and education programs specifically to prevent this.
The lack of desire of young people to have families is an issue but it's one being faced in every developed nation. Tackling it isn't as simple as stopping immigration and intentionally crashing our own economy. This just appears to be the natural pattern when living standards increase. To fight it would be to fight the natural progression of our culture. You could probably do it if you invested specific effort into doing so but what you're proposing isn't a solution. Best I can tell you started with the premise that you didn't want immigrants and worked backwards.
Australia was known for it's wide open spaces.Let's work toward keeping it that way.The northern hemisphere is stuffed from industrial mayhem over centuries of development.Surely,we have learned to not replicate the same issues through migration senseless planning without forethought at least 7 generations ahead.@@uzziya6392
America has large desert states , start building inland !
Not many people want to live inland in Australia because of the climate. Plus where are we going to get the water from.
'Density can create a better quality of life' haha, what a numpty, I like being able to get around a city quickly, not wait in lines for ever or pay top dollar for everything because there are a thousand other people who want the same thing as me which just jacks up the cost of living across the board... There is no such thing as enough for the big business machine.
And make sweeping statements without following them up with an argument.
Make the immigrants go to the small regional town and cities where they can fill in jobs there and in the outback than putting a strain in the big cities.
I'm a kiwi living in Darwin
Problem is you can't make someone stay there for an extended period of time. We are a democratic country so we can't actually stop them from leaving if they want to after the long term
Because of overpopulation housing costs increase and wages stay the same
That is exactly what is happening here in New Zealand.
You know population also generate jobs? Wtf
The Government should own the land not developers: Greedy Developers “!
@@divyanshd3969 Immigrants crowd up infrastructure that has taken generations of Australian taxpaying to provide. They also contribute to the need for more infrastructure, expensively inserted into a built up environment, that we all have to pay for, not just the newcomers that make it necessary.
Of course the construction companies love their taxpayer funded projects and their employees, many of them foreign, love their taxpayer funded jobs.
Also, the citizens have to wait longer for doctor's appointments. We do NOT have a doctor, nurse or teacher shortage. What we have is an excess of patients and pupils due to our massive immigration intake that has been maintained for more than a decade.
All levels of government are addicted to the easy revenue from ever-ballooning imported populations. They don't need to come up with sustainable, long term thinking. Why didn't Australia pocket some of its surplus away into a sovereign wealth fund over the last 30 years (not counting the pollie super fund - Future Fund)?
overnightpartsfromjapan exactly, visas bring in billions and that buys votes by "paying down debt made from.bad decisions".
Mean while here in Townsville we have cheaper housing. Plenty of space and yet the government just ignore us we are bigger than bloody Darwin for Christ's sake. But sure send them all to bloody Melbourne and Sydney not like its getting over crowded there.
There's no jobs there. Who's gonna move to a place that's in the middle of nowhere?
that's where government planning fixes the problem. you need to open up areas in townsville (and other cities) that are approved for industrial and commercial building with less red tape.
you can also use tax incentives and government grants to get people started. It also gets the people in that area off centre link.
@@deezeed2817 exactly as Reeceaus said. By giving incentives to move to smaller communities eith more room for development you can decrease some of these problems and help unlock the potential of these far away areas. Not to mention the reason Townsville jas so many problems is because its water infrastructure has not been seriously upgraded in over 30 years. Places like Townsville Broome, Darwin and others like should be the fast growing areas. They are not and now the government is javing to deal with the problems of focusing everything into a few cities.
What's wrong with living in high rise. If you have parks nearby, some shops and workplaces you may never need to leave a 5km radius around your apartment. That distance is easily walkable / rideable reducing the strain on roads and public transportation aswel as pollution. Then when you do need to travel to a different part of the city you're not contending with as many people.
Ryan Hamilton yes this is the best comment I’ve seen
Completely agree. People need to stop moving 20km out from the CBD just to fulfil the "Australian dream". It's unsustainable for our cities and you're contributing more to pollution than if you lived in a inner-city apartment.
That's a gigantic 'if'
@@shockwave2291 You mean Australians should stop living like Australians?
Dick Smith has a really good name
If Aus goes Republic he should be president.
Any aboriginal people here in the comments? For me only your opinion matters👍
@Sahal E. M. Patel No one is going to want to live inland you said you lived in central Queensland why don't you anymore. The amount of infrastructure(job creation, transport accommodation) needed to make inland cities a viable option would take more than 25 years both from economic and cultural stand point, then you have the added bonus of why are the Australian tax payers paying to build this infrastructure that will take away from Australian farmlands for mainly migrants so our cities are less overpopulated we didn't get in this position because Australians are breeding too much its the opposite the main portion of immigrants being Asian(south) have a culture of having big families whilst at the same time they have the gall to scam center link for every dollar they can to support their big families funded by the Australian tax payers.
@Sahal E. M. Patel Agreed.
You can't be the government then. Incidently Aboriginal people came to Australia too, & burnt the shit out of the place.
Racist foreigner.
Internet, electricity, water, public transport, all these will be cheaper with higher population density though.
No they won't and they never will be,prices will always fluctuate somewhat,but the only way is up up up.Australians had a better deal when these things were publicly owned.Privatization killed any chance of good service and low prices because there's little to no serious competition and Australia has practically no control over essential service.
All our essential services are a shambles and Royal Commissions have cost the taxpayer a mint the last few decades since selling the farm.Sad as shit seeing our elderly and sick and weak being abused,schools failing to supply good education.36 years ago the government said they would "drought proof Australia" instead they privatized water and ripped us off.We don't produce anything besides a couple of select and controlled resources ... and for the greater part only consume imports and export debt to the banking system.
And there will be slums and shit jobs for ordinary people. Just like 中国。cheap food though, right?
Water is already scarce in Australia, so no, water will get more expensive,especially as the utility is owned by the Chinese Communist party. Same with electricity, and public transport will be over worked and underfunded because it,too,is owned by for profit foreign corporations. Your argument ignores the facts.
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Meanwhile in Alice Springs...
Darwin's population is on the decrease...how about Dampier, Broome,Roebourne,Quilpie and Boulia in Queensland?
im not sure if Australia will cope but i sure wont ! Outback here i come .
ROFLMAO ... That's exactly where the next 70K "skilled migrants" are going to be dropped.There's no escaping this fate if it's left to continue.
I wish there were subtitles because their accents can be so strong sometimes.
We need to focus on our own people, and not just keep inviting everyone to move here.
We need to create our own solutions for a better future.
Sounds like someones a racist.
From my helicopter I criticise the impact of other people’s lives below me
Smith is trying to represent the people who are trying to live in these cities, but being pushed out by overpopulation, overdevelopment and massive price rises.
Bit hard without water.
Coffee Drinker 80% of the world is water so you think there is not enough ?
Climate change is dehydrating the earth 🌍
There's not enough water for everyone, let alone for another 400,000 immigrants coming next year 2020. The roads are heavily congested yet he wants more people? Australia is not Noah's Ark and shouldn't allow new people in unless they're assimilating types and embraces Australian culture and doesn't want to change that. 20,000 - 30,000 new immigrants each year could cope but not that many more because all of the public services cannot cope. Australia is broke because of the unsustainable 400,000 each year. The high cost of health care including hospitals made it impossible for Australians to enjoy a quality of life especially when it was they who've built Australia to what it is now and not able to enjoy affordable retirement money. Now, retirees were told that they'll now have to continue working to pay their high cost of health care and quality of life. The smart ones left Australia to retire in places like Thailand, Philippines, etc., where the money stretches longer than it does in Australia.
Exactly. Migrants don't increase the prices that our agricultural and mineral exports attract on world markets. They contribute the need for more and more infrastructure so that our taxes are spent on infrastructure instead of supporting our own retired people, which we all want to be some day. Those migrants are going to want pensions and health care too.
@@chriswatson1698 so true, so true!!👍
Australia supposed to reach 25 million people in 2025 but that target was reached in 2018. Who was the decision-maker? What fantasy (pills) world was this person living on? There's another thing, among the workers what was shared during conversation was that lots of these immigrants don't qualify to enter into Australia yet this has happened. Furthermore, so many were in possession of fake qualifications certificates they bought.
@ David Stevens: I have had personal experience with the 'Diploma gets you permanent residency" scam. I taught desktop publishing at an "International college" in Perth. On a show of hands, all my students indicated that they wanted permanent residency in Australia. None of them had the English skills to work in desktop publishing, but they were still allowed to pass. The teachers were employed on a contract basis and if any teacher failed anyone. their contract wasn't renewed.
Their student visas allowed them to work 20 hours a week, but many worked full time and didn't show up to class. They had paid their money so they still expected a diploma. As far as I know, they were given one.
@@chriswatson1698 that's what people I knew said the same. Indian and Chinese and Malaysian. They bought their qualifications. It's a lot of that scams going on in Australia and the government are guilty of doing nothing about it. They were complicit, they knew about it.
We aren’t crowded we are just not building infrastructure we are lacking decades
Sydney density (430)is lower than the netherlands(488) so how even could we call it megacity
@Matthew Donovan The megacity needs to be at least 2000ppl/ square km . If it wuld be lower all of Bangladesh could be one megacity or Germany's Rhine-Ruhr could be also a megacity. Not to mention that Australia is not capable of building a megacity .
Australians make a big deal out of it, with their size of their country they should easily be over 100million people but they are only 25. Japan a much smaller country is 126m, just look at that.
@@unboxviews we make a big deal out of it because despite the size of Australia, a lot of it is uninhabitable and we are not building enough infastructure for the growing population resulting in Sydney being one of the most expensive cities in the world despite having 5 million people, it is as expensive as cities 2 to 5 times the size and that is due to our infrastructure not being able to keep up with our growth.
Immigration benefits those already wealthy and the migrants themselves. The very real costs of population increase are borne by the whole community, especially the younger and poorer members of it.
Cut immigration now.
Get it back to the level it was during the government of Gough Whitlam: 50,000 per year.
I hate that the great Aussie backyard is being lost to multiple units on a single block. No fresh air and greenery to make life giving oxygen. Nowhere for kids to play and be kids. It's a F'ing disgrace.
I loved backyard cricket, even when I busted the kitchen window LOL!
Australia is not like the U.S. with a large Mississippi river. It will be easier for Canada thanks to global warming while an increasing number of Australians will emigrate to New Zealand and Canada once the mortgage bubble bursts and global warming makes life more difficult in a large part of Australia...but 80 million people in Australia is something achievable.
European Australia is dying in Australia. By that 2050 mark the culture of small cafes and little italys will be dead or dying. I wouldn't be surprised if Starbucks made a comeback since Chinese/Koreans love it. its sad, and I want to keep european & Aboriginal culture. We are going to turn into Hong Kong/Singapore and I hate the idea of it.
Australia is multi-ethnic, we want people of different ethnicities coming here and adopting WESTERN culture and ideas, along with the Australian way of life. Multiculturalism is legit just plonking a group of people from one country into another allowing them to speak their own language, set up there own everything, have same beliefs and values from where they came from. Who wants that? nobody
Hey I have a Chinese root and I hate Starbucks. Europeanised small cafe shop is the only place I go to for my coffees. I love European culture too. Stop pointing the fingers just because you want to. You will be very wrong if you think Australian culture equals to European culture. We are such a young country compare to Italy or France, thats why we need cultures from overseas to elaborate us. European culture, Chinese culture, India culture, and many more, All last thousands of years . Maybe there are suburbs start to look like HongKong, same as suburbs turning into India, places reminds you Dubai but Australia as a whole will still be Australia. everyone grows up here will worship the ancestors on this land, admire the Australian spirit, no matter where their parents are from. They also bring new culture onto this land and combine our values. Australia is set to become the greatest country on this planet.
@Error Eliminator Im sorry but you are very ill-informed when it comes to the true meaning and definition of multiculturalism. "Everyone can immerse in multiple cultures" and why would I want to immerse myself in the rape culture of the Congo? "less advanced" so you are agreeing that we are bringing in people who are "less advanced" then the western culture?
@Marketing Movies Well, You can move to Europe for european culture if u love it so much and australia doesnt have it anymore.............. O_O
Marketing Movies for your information, Australia wasn’t intended for little Italy. It was intended to be of almost all British stock and descendants Anglo Saxon.Do your research fool. Not feeling so European now are you?
Man was not meant to live in a box, nature is calling us..
Totally agree.
It was paradise on Earth..
We can still achieve it..
I'm capable of subsistance living,but government frowns on those that do and law/regulations make it very hard to comply and still feel freedom of lifestyle.
too late.we're cooked already with this ridiculous attempt at industrial civilisation who doesn't cleanup their mess.ua-cam.com/video/McrytYdId5M/v-deo.html
Dubai and Switzerland are sustainable for centuries to come despite being very small and lacking land for their population because of their selfless and scientific development projects. If you don't want your buildings to be tall then you probably don't want your nation to develop
The beauty of Australia is the fact we have wide open spaces, if we lose that we lose our identity and appeal! who wants to live crammed in like they do in Hong Kong? not me that's for sure!
Its happening everywhere. Enjoy your space while you can lol
Australia is built on western values and it's not just about space. Australia has become progressive and that's due to PC, sjw, snowflake generation, multiculturalism, feminism, weak men, etc. Once a western society turns into a marxists society it's only downhill from there. Australia has lost the culture war and now Australia will go down the path USA went down in the GFC. Hopefully the hard times that is coming will create strong men and leaders so that Australia can get back on track to prosperity and truth. What minority groups has caused isn't diversity but it has divided Australia and now the citizens are less patriotic than before. The further left a country goes the more confused and divided a country will be. Keep it simple is what Australia needs right now, not this diversity and giving minority power over the majority bs.Tax payers shouldn't be wasting money on normalizing mental illness such as LBGTI social policies.
Take a good hard look at Australian politicians and ask yourself this question, are these people capable of planning a functional megacity? How are they going so far with the small cities they have been gifted by previous generations?
Melbourne is probably the best planned city in Australia, but that's because of awesome state leaders. The Federal Government have no idea what they're doing.
Past leaders, is Mathew Guy awesome?
Karma is growing not subsiding. Sorry Australias first immigrants.
Open the gates to the world! It'll fix everything :)
City people don't realise the carrying capacity on Australia is quite low. Our soils are very impoverished. Our ecological system are colapsing now. Imagine Australia with a population like China, India... should we keep growing? It is ridiculous playing on our emotions about immigration.
I wan't to ask a question, I'm 40, and I climbed trees in my backyard as a kid. I wan't to know how many kid's these days can say they did the same! I'm guessing it's a helluva lot less. :( A total shame!
Totally understand. Sounds like my childhood. Our masters have childhoods in rat cages planned for future generations.
Definitely still possible I'm 23 I didn't wear shoes unless I was at school lol
Totally agree I wish the kids childhoods could be that these days, but unfortunately times are changing. So with it do we. I believe that designated parks should be made much more abundant!
Wayne Mahomet we have parks and you can move to the country, just have less conveniences.
Wayne Mahomet just think of your Gramps who used to ride horses in his backyard as a kid. Who wanted to know how many kid's in your time can say they did the same. I'm guessing a helluva lot less.
It is a shame regarding smaller backyards, but fortunately now your kid will probably do more or have an abundance of something else more than when you were a kid. Eg access to free information on the Internet, better access to education, better health choices.
its all about people making money not the bs about moving forward and being like london and paris
Sounds like youre a racialist.
You know when to stop because people will start talking about.. That's the sign!
Dick Smith is right. That our current leaders seem to think that endless economic growth driven by endless population growth is sustainable. It's plain ridiculous to think that there will be continuous technological advancements that will allow for endless population growth, it's a fallacy. Yes, Thomas Malthus wasn't entirely correct, he didn't see the green revolution coming. However, now we have a food system that is heavily reliant on dwindling resources such as water, phosphate and nitrogen (which is currently synthesised from fossil fuels), not to forget soil degradation and salinity. Just keep on making this an issue about migrants, that way we will be distracted from the real problems.
First need to solve the following issues:-
1) Advance rubbish incinerator plants
2) Large sea water desalination plants
3) Large sewage treatment plants
4) Large nuclear power stations (those advance safe nuclear power plants)
5) Extreme mess transit sub-way networks (public bus / ferry networks as emergency incase)
6) Cost effective (low cost) fibre optic wide board band cable networks
7) Schools
8) Hospitals
9) Technical colleges
10) Jails
11) Grave yards
12) Industrial & factories village
Why not just built another new "super tall high-rise buildings bundled together" city (100km away) close by the existing city (Sydney) with high speed railways networks connect to existing CBD, less political issues, no jeopardise of existing citizen and their wealth/life style and create massive traffic jam in current city and maybe a bit cheaper in urban planning/construction and development cost! Look at China! They can just build a new city within 5 years! Australian can do it too!
People DO NOT KNOW what is good for the country, go ahead with the plan.
But how good is the food? Especially that real authentic "sushi" you guys probably get.
you can stop migration when i get a citizenship . and Australi should focus on bringing students rather than refugees
The best way to distribute the population growth is to create low tax incentives in rural areas for people to immigrate, set up businesses and live, etc
Bung the government agencies there in rural locations, that forces the government employees to live in that area. That then creates jobs for the other services and utilities required for that increased population.
i believe australian govt is consedering cutting down immigrants to 70,000 (from 200,000)/year and placing geological visa restrictions for over half of those immigrants to curb the rapid population growth in sydney, melbourne and south east queensland
ROFL
And then their kids grow up go the city for higher education to get better jobs and never return to the rural areas again.The parents go out of business because everyone moved closer to the city so their children could get schooling.. the parents grow old,close the business before declaring bankrupt.More debt needed so government orders another batch immigrants gives them incentives from taxpayer money and cycle repeats.
There's good reason so few live rural anymore,it's by government design and socially engineered that way.Rural areas closed down because the government shunned the farming communities in favor of them selling and letting big business run food security.The small family farmers that we have left are hanging on by a thread.You can't seriously send new arrivals into the rural areas on a wing and a prayer expecting they'll survive longer than those that were born and raised there did.
@@brettanthonypalmer2956 I'm not expecting them to be farmers. I want to send them immigrant doctors, nurses, teachers, entrepreneurs, Mudgee is a perfect example of a rural town where real estate is already growing from demand. Not to mention not all rural areas are predominantly farming. Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour, Mackay, Townsville are also appealing as coastal rural hubs, etc.
@@ToddJHammond You have noble intentions in theory,but with our immigration policy and target regions that we pull them from it's not a theory that is achievable.The vast majority of our immigration program are single males between age 18-35,many are considered under-educated even in there own country of origin,a lot of them don't speak english and never will.
I understand we have some absolutely brilliant individuals coming into this country that make Australia better as a whole,but they're the extreme outlying cases.For example,where I live we have a fairly new University Hospital with a fantastic diversity of staff and trainees who are all much appreciated and loved .... but we have a problem that far outweighs the good university .. and that is our crime rates have soared across the board,jobs at all levels of skill have become scarce with some jobs being reserved for immigrants only,the price of living has become outrageous.New arrivals are being lifted by subsidy and handout while the local bred struggle to maintain the cost of living,without subsidy the locals feel as though they pay,pay,pay while the residents recieve,recieve,recieve ... it's done nothing but build resentment on both sides.
It's sad,I volunteer to help the church feed cloth and give shelter to the homeless,destitute and struggling in in my area and none of them are African or Muslim,they aren't offered any meaningful way out of their situation,they aren't lifted up(given a hand) like the new arrivals are.However,what I do understand is that this will be the fate of some of the new arrivals once their "care package"" time has run out.
no aboriginal point of view discussion??
Because European Australia is dying like them. By that 2050 mark the culture of small cafes and little italys will be dead or dying. Aboriginal culture and impact on Australia is dead. its sad, and I want to keep their and european culture. We are going to turn into Hong Kong/Singapore and I hate the idea of it.
@Aaron Radical change of government needed the current major bozo partys have had decades upon decades to do listen to what the Aboriginal Australians need and want,they continue to fail them.Time for radical political change.
Australia was formed in 1901. What are you talking about.
As a child of immigrants I think immigration is important. But we do need to control the flow of immigration and give our infrastructure a chance to catch up. A high speed rail would go a long way to facilitate growth in non-capital cities.
You want high speed rail? You're on the wrong continent. Australias long distance trains have journey times slower than British steam expresses in the 1930s.
Yeah more stinky, polluting jet planes.
Clement “you know” Lun
"Will Australia cope with its immigration Ponzi scheme?"
Correct. And are there no economic models where there can be economic growth with zero net population growth? I bet there are, but selfish governments and economic interests prefer shoveling people into this country like coal into a steam engine instead.
The states and federal governments need to start spending in regional centres instead of spending it all on cities. Here in QLD the central qld region makes all the money for the state and we have goat tracks for roads. Look at the Bruce Highway as soon as you get past the sunshine coast heading north pot holes big enough to loose your car.
It's not that simple. Using Queensland as an example, it's a state of 5 million people with Brisbane containing 2 million. Country roads are expensive to renovate because they're so big and so isolated. A new road connecting Woop Woop in central Queensland to a coastal port might only directly effect 50,000 residents but have a length long enough to pass through entire countries elsewhere. Meanwhile, a small road upgrade in South East Queensland might effect the majority of the state's population while not being as expensive overall.
Also, let's be clear, central Queensland does not make "all the money" in the state. That's a myth. We like our farmers and miners so we spend a disproportionate amount on stuff for them but the agriculture and mining 2.5% and 7.4% of the state's economy total. Now, those are big numbers for Queensland because we have a very diverse economy but the two largest industries are tourism and construction taking up 11% and 24% of the state's economy. Both these industries are dependent on support infrastructure whereas mining and farming simply aren't. That is except for the construction associated with mining which doesn't require support infrastructure. It's mean to say but central Queensland has goat tracks for roads because the central Queensland economy works perfectly fine with dirt tracks and the money required to upgrade those tracks would not be as impact in central Queensland as if it were spent in the city due to the low density of the outback.
Mate we just built 3 gas plants in Gladstone on Curtis Island, i think that classes as construction. In Gladstone alone we have had 15yrs of construction just come to an end. We have the port exporting coal. They are just taking us for a ride.
And going by your logic our lifes up here aren't worth anything to you people in Brisbane and the south east qld. We don't deserve to have a safe roads and highways. Hope you and your family don't have to go north for any reason, and have a crash and loose a family member due to our unsafe roads and highways.
We are not asking for a light rail system to get around our towns of 60,000 residents. What we are asking for is safe roads. Im talking the Bruce highway Australia's no.1 Highway. We should have a 2 lane highway all the way up the coast. As soon as you go through Gympie going north the road is horrible. All we are asking for is a safe highway. Alot of us country folk die heading to the big smoke for our family holidays simple because our roads are unsafe.
All the way up the coast? From Melbourne to Cape York? Once you leave Cairns you're only serving ~20,000 people with a highway the same length that of Cairns to Brisbane or Brisbane to Melbourne. You want a highway twice the width of Germany to serve an area of 20,000 people? And that's just the last distance. I think you are dramatically underestimating how expensive highways are to maintain. Not to mention the environmental impact which'd bring up costs even more with wildlife bridges, barriers, raised sections and all the ecological studies along the entire goddamn coast. I know people from the country like to drive but you have to understand how expensive and time consuming proper highways and freeways are to maintain. If people don't use them they fall into disrepair.
It would literally be cheaper for us top build a fast rail along that distance. That's why we *have* a fast rail from Brisbane to Rockhampton and Brisbane to Cairns. That combined with airports is just a more cost efficient way of moving people than highways.
I think a new city should be built somewhere in central Australia rather than saturating the already saturated cities with artificial freshwater lakes it would give a better control on the mineral rich hinterlands of Australia...
With the stroke of a pen, we can stabilise Australia's population at the level that it is now and then let it shrink. Immigrants don't increase the prices that our mineral and agricultural exports attract on world markets. But the revenues that our government receives for them must be spread more thinly, the more people that move here.
@@chriswatson1698 more than immigrants they should encourage the fertility of Real Australians and support for people with more kids i bet Australia can be like usa if it has the population.
@@abhisekroy6430 Did you watch the video explain that there is not enough water?
@@abhisekroy6430 Do you really want to be anything like the USA? Fortunately, we don't have the water or the fertile soils.
MIgrants don't increase the prices that our exports receive on world markets, but the revenue that our governments get for those exports must be spread over more people. Less per capita.
Migrants contribute to the need for more infrastructure that we all have to pay for, not just the newcomers that make it necessary. Insertng infrastructure into a built up environment is expensive.
Building infrastructure is a case of taxing Australians to pay for facilities for foreigners. I am not interested in paying for infrastructure for foreigners. Cut immigration NOW.
Foreigners have money, this country is bankrupt
Foreigners COST. They contribute to the demand for more infrastructure, expensively inserted into a built environment. Of course the construction companies are rubbing their hands in glee at the profits that they are making out of the Australian taxpayers. And their workers, (many foreign) love their taxpayer funded wages.
Yeh, everyone wants it all to work better, have more infrastructure, public transport but they don't want taxation. The very wealthy who don't need the public bit and who own helicopters just want to keep everything including a cent or two on the income tax. Public services mean public goodwill and paying for it and then this will create more jobs especially for the working class and middle classes.
albany in western australia is growing really fast and there probaly going to start putting 300meter sky scarpers
Australia’s infrastructure can’t cope with current population growth.
Australia needs a lot more migrants to help sustain the economy.
Some Australian states will run out of water in 5 years.
Wait, what.....? 🤔
City planning is better than no planning
Unofficial 3 million Indians in Australia !!!!!!!
By 2050 the population will be close to 50-60 million.
You won't own a car or be able to afford on , nor would it be practical as traffic congestion would be a nightmare.
You will need to get up at 5am to get to work on time to your entry level job.
You will be renting as you wont be able to afford a house. You will live in an appartment. The new Australian dream. Owning your own clothes.
then australia will be like spain or italy
The ordinary people of Spain and Italy have less living space than ordinary Australians. I was told that Italians don't know what it is like to live in a house. I was horrified by the way that the Milanese lived. Square miles of 4 storey concrete blocks of tiny flats.