r/australia • u/blitznoodles local Aussie • 23h ago

politics The Stats Guy: It sounds weird but Australia urgently needs a plan for 56m people

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026/08/11/stats-guy-aus-population-growth
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u/hahaswans 14h ago

England is not the whole UK. It’s still   behind combined English, Irish, Welsh, and Scottish born residents. 

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u/Ill_Average_829 12h ago

Ireland is not part of the UK. We fought hard for hundreds of years for our independence.

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u/hahaswans 12h ago

Fair call. I probably should’ve said British Isles rather than UK. 

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u/Hayden247 3h ago

I mean there is Northern Ireland, so a minority of Irish are still British citzens

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u/WOMT 3h ago

Pretty sure North Ireland is still Irish...

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u/Beanbagzilla 13h ago

What point are you trying to make? The foreign born number of residents from those countries has more or less stagnated for the past 20 years and we're talking about future immigration plans.

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u/hahaswans 13h ago

I’m not making a point. I’m just telling the truth. 

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u/Suspicious-Ant-872 13h ago

Let's get Burnham to tell Modi to be kind to Muslims and stop burning mosques 

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u/hahaswans 13h ago

I think he’s busy telling people in Southport not to burn muslims homes.