Population: Australia a dog chasing it's tail

Former NSW state architect Chris Johnson has forecast Sydney needs to build 100 new high-rise apartment towers a year for the next 50 years to protect suburban life from being ruined by over-development as the city’s population grows. “Five thousand new towers, containing 110 apartments each, would provide 550,000 new homes — that will accommodate only a third of our planned population growth over the next 50 years,’’ Mr Johnson said. Of course, all this growth is supported by the Urban Growth Taskforce, and it fits their megalomaniac profit-making from the building frenzy! Sydney’s population would grow by about four million and 1.66 million new homes would be needed — double the number of existing homes today. It's time the people of Australia were allowed to determine their own population size, and growth rate. We benefited in the past from high immigration, but now it's in runaway mode. Just when will our growth end? Until we have 80 or 100 million people by the end of the century? Australia is the driest continent, so why should be emulate the ghetto cities of America or Asia? We already have 6 desalination plants, and living standards for families are declining. All this growth is for the benefit of the mortgage and building industries, so they can continue their gluttony and greed! We need to protect our cities from vested interests, and lobby for zero net immigration - or to the levels we had back in the 1990s. Daily Telegraph: High Time for Sydney as population swells key mayor back plan for tall towers near railway stations