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Wait until you see what Australia is doing :'( Plan is to increase our population by about 500k per year(I think about 200K natural growth & 300K immigration).

Wait until you see what Australia is doing :'( Plan is to increase our population by about 500k per year(I think about 200K natural growth & 300K immigration). We already have a housing shortage. They created a 10bil housing fund. Plan is for this fund to... invest in the stock market, and use the interest to fund the construction of 6000 houses a year. It's a fucking joke. People talk about Big Australia(govt policy of sharply increasing population) for geopolitical reasons, but I think it's simpler than that. My personal theory is that the govt doesn't want to go into a technical recession and be excoriated in the murdoch press as bad economic managers because they were left holding the previous govts turd sandwich. The parallels between Australia & Canada are interesting, but i'm curious why the Canadian govt is motivated to do this...

somerandomqaguy 3y ago
>Plan is to increase our population by about 500k per year(I think about 200K natural growth & 300K immigration). ....... ? Canada's number of permanent and non permanent residents increased by 1 million or so in 2022. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-22/canada-s-population-grows-by-more-than-1-million-for-first-time https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-22/canada-s-...
- throwaway462910 3y ago
  > Wait until you see what Australia is doing
wesapien 3y ago
The Common (un)Wealth. The society they've built is self extinguishing. Birth rates from immigrants fall off and become part of the status quo in a generation.
bbqq 3y ago
The numbers aren't correct. Australia has a declining population excl. migration, so perhaps your domestic figure doesn't include deaths. Permanent visa quotas are indexed as a percentage of population since 15-20 years ago, and it was reduced this year for the first time in ages be 5k less (195->190). Net overseas migration is commonly touted but that includes citizens/students etc and is just that years entrants - departures: highly affected by recent global disruptions during covid.
- Andaith 3y ago
  That's not correct. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national-state-and-territory-population/latest-release https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national... Key statistics Statistics in this release are commonly known as Estimated Resident Population (ERP). Australia’s population was 26,268,359 people at 31 December 2022. The quarterly growth was 127,078 people (0.5%). The annual growth was 496,800 people (1.9%). Annual natural increase was 109,800 and net overseas migration was 387,000.

somerandomqaguy 3y ago

>Plan is to increase our population by about 500k per year(I think about 200K natural growth & 300K immigration). ....... ? Canada's number of permanent and non permanent residents increased by 1 million or so in 2022. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-22/canada-s-population-grows-by-more-than-1-million-for-first-time https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-22/canada-s-...

throwaway462910 3y ago
> Wait until you see what Australia is doing

wesapien 3y ago

The Common (un)Wealth. The society they've built is self extinguishing. Birth rates from immigrants fall off and become part of the status quo in a generation.

bbqq 3y ago

The numbers aren't correct. Australia has a declining population excl. migration, so perhaps your domestic figure doesn't include deaths. Permanent visa quotas are indexed as a percentage of population since 15-20 years ago, and it was reduced this year for the first time in ages be 5k less (195->190). Net overseas migration is commonly touted but that includes citizens/students etc and is just that years entrants - departures: highly affected by recent global disruptions during covid.

Andaith 3y ago
That's not correct. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national-state-and-territory-population/latest-release https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national... Key statistics Statistics in this release are commonly known as Estimated Resident Population (ERP). Australia’s population was 26,268,359 people at 31 December 2022. The quarterly growth was 127,078 people (0.5%). The annual growth was 496,800 people (1.9%). Annual natural increase was 109,800 and net overseas migration was 387,000.