13 February

There’s lots to like about Dick. But he’s banging the population drum again. And it’s not really about population - which you can’t control - it’s about immigration, which you can. He doesn’t seem to understand that Australia is an ageing population, and without immigration there won’t be the young people to do the work to support the old. In 1927 9% of the population was older than 65. By 2057 that proportion will be 22%.