Chas Keys – former Deputy Director General of the New South Wales State Emergency Service – has posted an article at Peals and irritations arguing that Australia’s floods crisis has been greatly exacerbated by the ‘Big Australia’ mass immigration policy, which has seen thousands of homes built along flood plains.
Keys has also called for net immigration to be cut below 100,000 people a year to limit the impacts on Australia’s environment:
The principal destinations of migrants to Australia are Sydney, Melbourne and south-eastern Queensland. Arriving in these major metropolitan areas, migrants create the stimuli for housing growth at the urban fringes as well as pushing up housing prices…
