Sustainable Population Australia Submission to the review of

What is a sustainable level of migration? A sustainable scale of immigration is one that allows Australia’s population to stabilise or slowly contract, in order to protect and improve the long-term ecological health of the Australian continental bioregion, which underpins the security and quality of life for future Australians and contributes to planetary stability. [...] Coincidentally, in 1994 a Working Party of the Australian Academy of Science recommended that the population of Australia be stabilised at approximately 23 million (the low end of various scenarios considered) in order to avoid continuing degradation of water, soil, energy and biological resources, and quality of life.5 The Federal government’s escalation of immigration and population growth since. [...] The result of the latter strategy would instantly overwhelm Australia’s capacity to absorb migrants: Gallup polls suggest that more than 750 million people wish to migrate from poorer to richer countries, and more than 25 million of them nominate Australia as their top priority (but many of the others would opt for Australia if its door was the one open to them).7 The idea that we are in a “global. [...] It would reduce the complexity for small businesses to meet all the legal and tax requirements of directly hiring staff by gathering all the required information on a single form, generating the appropriate contracts and statements, and automating the funds transfers to the employee’s account, super fund, insurance and tax office. [...] It was not always so: in the 1990s, there was a general acceptance by government, the scientific community and the public that net migration of 50,000 per year, with the aim of population stabilisation under 25 million, was a “consensus.”37 The shift to “Big Australia” settings can be traced to a campaign ramped up in the late 1990s by a number of leading businessmen and property developers, to re.