Austalia's Immigration Policy

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immigration and multiculturalism on this
country where as the pro-immigration lobby is only concerned for the migrant or
their own interests.

ENVIRONMENT

Australia, the world's oldest and driest continent, with severe soil degradation
and climatic uncertainty - a land of, “droughts and flooding rains”' already
faces declining agricultural productivity. Only 10% of our huge land mass is
arable and this land produces less grain than two small states in the USA. The
reality is that we always will be a small food producer by international
standards. Australia has a responsibility to protect its bio-diversity and not
allow its flora and fauna to be pushed form their habits to extinction because
of population or economic pressures. In comparison, the pro-immigration lobby
feel that we have no moral right to this land unless we push development to the
limit. Our population must be stabilised as elsewhere in the world.

The use of water for irrigation, urban demand and sewage disposal, is already
straining supply to the limits. Our main cities have grown beyond their optimum
size. Pollution, traffic, urban sprawl, failing community service, crime and
lower quality of life are occurring. Crowed, sprawling, smog covered cities,
with all of the dysfunctional problems of Los Angles, are the inevitable
consequences of further mass immigration. Yet the government plans to double
the size of our major cities over the next 30 years by immigration. Is this
what Australians, new and old, or of and ethnic group wants?

The Premier of NSW, Bob Carr was right when he said, “the nation can't handle
more people....Sydney is bursting at the seams....the debate ought to be about
carrying capacity of the continent - a continent that has lousy soils, fragile
vegetation and depleted and degraded river systems”.

ECONOMICS

To cope with our massive immigration problem which has produced the fastest
population...