Interesting view - cant help but think the environmental radicals must really hate humans,

The government could develop a ''threat abatement plan''. China has already done that, perhaps Mr Berger would like to emigrate to there.

As the ACF has just, belatedly discovered the bleeding obvious it would qualify as one of the more useless bunch of turners on the planet, maybe they could help solve the problem by removing themselves from it.

With Brisbane getting short of water a couple of years ago, Toowoomba water being piped in and dams north of Toowoomba still low, Sydney water critical 18 months ago it's telling us something. See how long it takes to get arround Brisbane now we're over populated,2 0 Million is enough for Australia to get back to a better lifestyle. If you drive a BMW X5 you might have to go back to a Lexus 400 or a Toyota prado it won't kill you you'll still get there in the same ammount of time 20 million is enough.

Hey Les, it not "over population". Brisbane in at the centre of poor development planning in the South East corner of Queensland. There is a lot more of Queensland and the rest of Australia than just Brisbane. Spread the population rather than having it heavily concentrated in areas of Australia. If the ACF is worried about Australia having too many people, lets start a culling program. All members of ACF first!

Stating the bleeding obvious! Any thinking person, who is not blinded by political correctness, knows that we are overpopulating this planet at a disgusting rate. Excessive human population is the worst plague on this planet by far. Everything else pales into insignificance and is a direct result of the over-population. We are compounding the problem with every humanitarian scheme and refugee scam we can think of.

This is a law of nature - a virus or a plague grows till it kills the host ie. environment, then it dies off.

The only people who could possibly be concerned about over-population in Australia are those who live in the capital cities. If they ever took the time to visit regional areas they would find out the opposite is actually true. Reduction in services, isolation, depression, reduced incomes are all signs of UNDER-population in Australian country areas.

It was so utterly hypocritical how Mr Berger, by the sound of him a Yank blow-in, was arguing against the immigration-driven population growth on ABC National.

I suppose there is not much point even mentioning to the ACF and the population nutters that 40% of all the urban sprawl in Australia since 1950 has been directly attributable to the decline in the number of people per household from 3.8 then to 2.7 today. And while much is made of recent moves to smaller lot sizes, the shift from 400m2 blocks in the pre-war years to 800m+ in the 60's to 80's also had a major impact. The natural and immigration based population increase over that time contributed less than half the problem. And lets not forget that it was the urban planning fraternity that signed off on larger lot sizes and the conversion of large houses into flats. And it was the urban green movement that objected to higher density "walk up flats" and high rises, on purely aesthetic grounds. It was this deliberate interference in the free functioning of the housing market that produced the current low density sprawl that makes public transport uneconomical. The facts are that Australian houses are the largest in the world. Most could easily fit two families and there is not the slightest doubt that our population could double to 44 million without needing a single extra lot.