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SMH = Sydney Morning Herald,   MD = Manly Daily

POPULATION GROWTH - Paul to MD

21/6/2015

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​Ralph Bennett (Your Say, 20 June) correctly identifies population growth as the source of most of this country’s problems.

But he will be waiting a long time for his hero “strong leaders”, Messrs Abbott and Baird, to change things.  Doesn’t he realise that it is their governments which are promulgating the “growth at all costs” policy?  Until recently, Mr Abbott was even advocating that we should to pay women to have more babies.  And he’d rather we continued to breathe carbon emissions because he doesn’t like the look of wind turbines, or presumably solar panels, despite the moral arguments expressed by his spiritual leader, the Pope.  And Mr Baird has just announced that a Greater Sydney Commission will deliver 664,000 additional houses by 2031.  They clearly haven’t got the message, Mr Bennett.

Messrs Abbott and Baird don’t know the meaning of the phrase “quality of life”.  If it doesn’t have a dollar sign in front of it, it can’t be of any importance.  But population growth does have plenty of dollar signs, all of them red for minus.
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