There is an old joke that goes, "Sure, Australia could support a population the size of Bangladesh's .... for a few days - before we all starved to death."
Linsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation (doesn't that say it all?) is looking for support from the greedy end of town and he will sell Australians out for power.
''Bangladesh is roughly twice the size of Tasmania, and home to about seven times the population of Australia. If Australia seeks to persuade the rest of the world that we are overpopulated, we will be rightly laughed at,'' Mr Tanner will say, according to a copy of his speech supplied to The Age.
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