Pauline, I think Cindy could sense from the few replies that did get through, that it was heading towards, a heavy Political debate, and could easily get out of hand ???
I to have strong Views and opinions on our open border policy, which is also increasing our population at an alarming rate, ??
But !!! I agree with Cindy, this forum is the friendly forum, and should be kept religion and politically free ??
I find plenty of other sites on the web, where i can tell everybody else, why i am right ?? and they are wrong [ imho ]
herbie said
06:22 AM Apr 24, 2013
How could this topic get out of hand ?? It is a true fact , nothing sinister in talking about a subject that is a fact. I thought it was interesting to know how many people we have in this beautiful country. ...Would it be any different than saying USA or where ever has x population. if someone asked that question on here before visitting that particular country.
johnq said
08:01 AM Apr 24, 2013
Australia has the fastest population growth in the developed world.
Annual population growth rate of 1.7%, or 1,048 people per day. Faster than India which is 1.4%!
The overall growth in the worlds population was 1.1%, well behind Australia.
Migration accounts for Australias population growth. Net overseas migration accounted for 60% of Australias population increase last year. The proportion from births dropped from 46% to 40%.
GaryKelly said
02:47 PM Apr 24, 2013
Yep, 23M... and to think I'm not responsible for a single soul. Actually, given the option these days, I'm not sure I'd want to bring another person into this world. It didn't seem so scary when I was younger, but it is now.
pauline said
02:50 PM Apr 24, 2013
Have to agree with you there Gary...........what I was trying to get at in my other post was how quickly the population seem to have doubled without us realising it was happening.
brickies said
03:00 PM Apr 24, 2013
John after your post ree Australia fastest growing population in the world I google it and found we are number 127 in the world reference Wikerpida
GaryKelly said
03:15 PM Apr 24, 2013
It's all that bonking business after Johnny comes marching home, Pauline. But I have to say Oz is a better and more interesting place than it was when I was a kid. I'd never heard of pizza let alone san choy bau . It was all fish 'n' chips and stew. And chicko rolls, of course. Hehe. Now there's a plethora of food, wine, fruits and veg, restaurants (remember Cahill's Tea Rooms?), festivals, music, art, fashion, sports and all things cultural.
Gerty Dancer said
03:30 PM Apr 24, 2013
We need to consider our food production as our population goes on increasing.... even without immigration the birthrate has risen over the last few years. Lets try and support our Australian farmers and buy local produce instead of imported.
herbie said
09:44 PM Apr 24, 2013
We always try to buy direct from the farmers and if a farmers markets we support it 100%
I was listening to land line the other night, they were reporting from Murray Golbourne Valley regarding how so many farmers are just ploughing their fruit trees into the ground.They just cannot continue with all the fruit and vegies allowed to come into our country.So wrong that we can send our own farmers to the wall, while we prop up other farmers from all over the world.
-- Edited by herbie on Thursday 25th of April 2013 06:21:10 PM
johnq said
11:34 PM Apr 24, 2013
brickies wrote:
John after your post ree Australia fastest growing population in the world I google it and found we are number 127 in the world reference Wikerpida
You did not read what I wrote which was 'developed world'.
It would be misleading to compare Australia with undeveloped countries that have no education, no contraception, are ruled by superstition and have high death rates, especially of women.
-- Edited by johnq on Wednesday 24th of April 2013 11:54:55 PM
EllenajoeL said
01:22 AM Apr 25, 2013
+1 Gerty Dancer
Australia produces excellent quality consumables... esp meat, f&v and grains....and the extra cost for the consumer (i.e. all of us) is so those that actually do the hard work; and their families; get something for their efforts (albeit a minor $ reward in most cases).
Indeed, this is a fundamental way to keep the 'backbone of this nation' strong, beyond current population numbers...
(whilst "digging it up, shipping it somewhere" is not a sustainable solution IMHO...)
Zoomtopz said
01:58 PM Apr 25, 2013
y not Gary . I was a dad again at 47 , now have a 17y old teen who "knows everything"
youse know th rest .
ps - he is So handy when I have a computer or teck question tho.
Richo
GaryKelly said
03:41 PM Apr 25, 2013
Agree on that one, Richo. It's all downhill after 17. Hehe.
Just watching ABC news to the count down for our population to reach 23million people. we have 13 peope to go until we reach it at almost 10pm
Just reached the 23 million . they said one chils is born in Oz now every i.5 mins i found that interesting never thought of it in those turms
I have the sat set up , but gee a lot of the stations are the same just different time zones.
They also said more people coming here than ever before to live...i just wonder can we up hold our population growing so quickly.
Pauline posted, ------------ I posted about this in I digress this morning and the post was closed...................why.
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Pauline, I think Cindy could sense from the few replies that did get through, that it was heading towards, a heavy Political debate, and could easily get out of hand ???
I to have strong Views and opinions on our open border policy, which is also increasing our population at an alarming rate, ??
But !!! I agree with Cindy, this forum is the friendly forum, and should be kept religion and politically free ??
I find plenty of other sites on the web, where i can tell everybody else, why i am right ?? and they are wrong [ imho ]
How could this topic get out of hand ?? It is a true fact , nothing sinister in talking about a subject that is a fact. I thought it was interesting to know how many people we have in this beautiful country. ...Would it be any different than saying USA or where ever has x population. if someone asked that question on here before visitting that particular country.
Annual population growth rate of 1.7%, or 1,048 people per day. Faster than India which is 1.4%!
The overall growth in the worlds population was 1.1%, well behind Australia.
Migration accounts for Australias population growth. Net overseas migration accounted for 60% of Australias population increase last year. The proportion from births dropped from 46% to 40%.
Lets try and support our Australian farmers and buy local produce instead of imported.
We always try to buy direct from the farmers and if a farmers markets we support it 100%
I was listening to land line the other night, they were reporting from Murray Golbourne Valley regarding how so many farmers are just ploughing their fruit trees into the ground.They just cannot continue with all the fruit and vegies allowed to come into our country.So wrong that we can send our own farmers to the wall, while we prop up other farmers from all over the world.
-- Edited by herbie on Thursday 25th of April 2013 06:21:10 PM
You did not read what I wrote which was 'developed world'.
It would be misleading to compare Australia with undeveloped countries that have no education, no contraception, are ruled by superstition and have high death rates, especially of women.
-- Edited by johnq on Wednesday 24th of April 2013 11:54:55 PM
+1 Gerty Dancer
Australia produces excellent quality consumables... esp meat, f&v and grains....and the extra cost for the consumer (i.e. all of us) is so those that actually do the hard work; and their families; get something for their efforts (albeit a minor $ reward in most cases).
Indeed, this is a fundamental way to keep the 'backbone of this nation' strong, beyond current population numbers...
(whilst "digging it up, shipping it somewhere" is not a sustainable solution IMHO...)
y not Gary . I was a dad again at 47 , now have a 17y old teen who "knows everything"
youse know th rest .
ps - he is So handy when I have a computer or teck question tho.
Richo