migration pressure - knock on effects

Australia since the creation of a colony by the English has been as a bloody great place to come over to and see what you can rip up and take away. Some people started doing this back in the earliest days of the colonial period of Australia.

Recently I wrote about the effects on population created by changes in immigration



Its interesting to see that at the same spot where the population growth started to ramp up we see another trend observed by the researchers at Australian Bureau of Statistics ... that up until the 1940's Australia was increasingly populated by people born here. Then, after that point in time, ramping up the migration rate meant that less and less people who call themselves Australian are Australian born.

ABS has a very interesting page
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So at the moment around one in four Australians are born here ... and looking at the modern end of that curve, the trend seems to be continuing and perhaps increasing.

Now, its interesting to note that the real growth of interest in conserving and protecting (as opposed to chopping down digging up and outright exploiting) came from about the time when most Australians were born here. Its also interesting to note that there is a decrease in interest in environmental issues, and that the environmental party (the Greens) has become subverted away from the environment and become some sort of radical urban based party.

I put forward that this is caused by the increase in immigration. We have less and less people who really understand Australia and an increase in the changes to what Australia is.

By having an increasingly itinerant population is it any wonder that noone gives a rats arse that your home is being degraded?