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Your editorial (‘‘ A bigger Australia to push up growth, pay down debt’’ , October 13) in support of NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s call for 2 million more migrants, was disappointingly blinkered. We are long past the time when we can focus only on any short-term economic benefits of massive population growth and ignore the

As politicians prepare to meet in Glasgow, there is an elephant in the room that no one seems willing to address. In 1958, the world population was 2.9 billion. Now, 63 years later, it is 7.9 billion. During that time, global per capita GDP has grown more than 350 per cent. So the world has

An inconvenient truth: only politicians and corporate bosses are interested in a ‘‘ big Australia” . The rest of don’t want it because infrastructure “growth” projects are always 10 years behind when they are needed. Think Melbourne. And overall wages have been stagnating for the better part of a decade. Why would you throw petrol

The issue of water supply in the Sydney region is highly contentious as shown by your article about Warragamba Dam (MPs urge for alternatives to dam wall raise, SMH 6/10/21). Our usual solution to shortages is to address the supply side. In this case raise the dam wall. Not only is this extremely expensive in