>> The housing crisis is a supply and demand problem so they've got to increase housing supply.

And now the government is creating "activity zones" around every train line where they will pack in super high density housing to pack more and more people in. Communities - the people who live in these "activity zones" hate it.

And new suburbs springing up many kilometers outside the cities - ugly wastelands without trees, without trains, without community. All to stuff in more people because more people is more money.

Why? Why do we want more people? Who voted for it? No-one because no government ever took it to the people because they all do it.

We should be allowed to protest against population growth without being called racists.

Population growth impacts community, environment, social services, quality of life.

Australia has massive droughts in which every drop of water counts but we've forgotten that because there's no drought right now.

>> Removing international students will also have big flow on negative effects for the rest of the economy.

I'm sorry I simply do not buy these old "accepted wisdoms" that get rolled out.

Just like the mining industry who try to convince us that without mining Australia's eocnomy would be ruined.

That's always the bottom line - "without this <thing that you want but I don't> then the economy will be ruined" I don't believe it.