Australian Population - Rudd's 'eco-colonisation' out of control

On 19 July 2009, the Sydney Sun-Herald newspaper ran the following article by writer Kelsey Munro: 'Record number of arrivals swells population'

"Figures suggest we're experiencing the biggest boom since the 1950s. A combination of high immigration rates and high birth rates has pushed Australia to a record population boom."

To summarise, Munro identifies the following population statistical trends in Australia from source 'RP Data':

* (Australia's) population growth in 2008 was the highest since the baby boom of the 1950s, according to statistics from RP Data.

* Last year, Australia's population grew by 1.9 per cent, or 406,083 people (nearly 1/2 a million!), to 21.6 million. This is a record figure of 253,415 in net migration (total arrivals minus total departures) represented a great increase over 2007's net migration figure of 184,438.

* Western Australia was the fastest-growing state in 2008, with a 3.1 per cent population increase largely fuelled by overseas migration drawn by the resources boom.

* However, Queensland had the greatest raw number of new residents, with 107,000 new Queenslanders (including births) arriving during 2008.

* NSW grew by 97,509 people but lost 22,690 residents to other states, mostly Queensland. However, this is almost half the number of rescees and publci idents heading north compared with the year before."

Demographer Peter McDonald from ANU claims that our popluation is mainly from immigration, made up from overseas students, New Zealanders, long-stay business visas and working holidaymakers.

Based on 2008's 1.9% cummulative growth rate, Australia's population by 2050 will be at least 44 million.

RE-ELECTION QUESTIONS FOR RUDD:

1. If record immigration offers such net economic and social benefits, why are all Australian states failing to cope and deliver on the flooding demand for public infrastructure and services?

2. Why is Australia's federal government choosing to lead the first world in population growth?

3. Why with such record immigration, is the Australian public denied disclosure of Rudd's federal population policy? - a policy that is the root driver of domestic demand for all resources, for imports, for inflation, for unemployment and for all public infrastructure and services!

4. Why are Australia's living standards and affordabilty being allowed to erode?

In history, there are two types of invasion. One by military aggression, the other by mass immigration. Australia has colonial history of both, which is being perpetuated today in a kind of neo-colonisation. Politically acceptable economics that seeks to silence views on the economics of mass population growth is head-in-the-sand politics that ignores the living standards of a society.

The Rudd Government is perpetuating a policy of 'eco-colonisation' without realisating the triple bottom line consequences. By eco-colonisation I mean a form of unofficial colonisation by way of mass imigration on teh basis of generating domestic economic growth. Like other forms of colonisation, eco-colonisation in mass like Australia has presently can similarly lead to displacement of the existing population by the immigrant population. For instance, more educated immigrants tend to displace the indigenous. A country's indigenous culture can be steadily eroded by an immigrant mass-culture, especially when that immigration involves economic immigrants with employable skills and wealth.

This was the nature of Australia's colonial past and it is being perpetuated today on an economic basis by the current Rudd Government. But importantly, this has nothing to do with race or ethnic origin. The problem is the impact of the sheer volume of immigrants and the impact on local society and environment.

Rudd no understand history.