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Originally posted by Hesperex:
I am sure Australia has room for a few hundred thousend Asylem seekers...I mean your population is what ... about 25 million and your Country is HUGE! I know most of it is uninhabitable but never the less you must! have plenty of room...look at us here in Britain ....some of your Farms are nearly as big as Wales and we have a population of 60 million and we take Asylem seekers by the thousends almost weekly it seems. We do not! have the room for them 60 million is the limit in my opinion, we can't take many more. France really needs to stop them getting over here...please tell me if I am missing something but whats wrong with them staying in France ....it's a nice country you have about the same population as us yet you have a lot more room than we do. Why do they even want to come to England so badly...it's the hardest place to get to bar Australia I would imagine so why!
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If you believe the "experts" on population growth Australias optimum population is 15 million. Let's forget that Japans is 20 million or so, and thus way over optimum though hey?
Seriously, a lot of the land is uninhabitable for any one bar an Aboriginie. Now isn't that interesting? The subsistance culture that was here for thousands of years can survive all over the country, but the growth culture that's been there 200 years cannot?
I actually hope that some bright spark decides there is money in irrigating parts of the interior. I have mentioned here before that as a child, the town I lived in in NW Australia, of the edge of the Gibson desert, was served by a river that was dry 9 months of the year, and flooded every christmas, cutting off the town. Now, imagine if they built a dam....
There is so much potential in Australia. Darwin for example imports everything. When I was last there about six years ago, the word was that there was no manufacturing there.
????? It is the closest Australian "city" (read large town) to Asia. A hop skip and jump away from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia.
Aussie focus is well and truly geared toward the southeast, who's only close neighbour is a couple of hamlets in Aotearoa
(Nyaa nyaa Azure)
Hey! I just remembered. There is a fellow with a property as large as a country in West Oz who about ten years ago
declared independance. He printed his own money, and stamps. I'm not sure whether the tax office caught up with him for refusing to pay tax, but if he's still going maybe he could pull his weight and take on these refugees.
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[This message has been edited by Yorick (edited 09-01-2001).]