“Arrivals are our engine for growth”, Herald-Sun, 29/7. Clueless opinion piece stating the usual argument that immigration is the cure for all economic ills. Young immigrants will also age, so even more younger ones will be required to sustain them, and so on until the population reaches absurd figures.
“AMA head Dr Andrew Pesce in IVF row”, Herald-Sun, 2/8. The new head of the Australian Medical Association dares to suggest that single women and gay couples should not have access to IVF because they are not technically infertile. Last year the Victorian Parliament granted lesbian couples and single women access to fertility treatment under the controversial Assisted Reproductive Treatment Bill.
Dr. Andrew Pesce, elected AMA federal president in May, told the Sunday Herald Sun that IVF should not be a “lifestyle choice” and use of the treatment by same sex couples went against the “natural order”. “Fertility treatment is there to treat diseases that cause infertility, it shouldn’t be there as a lifestyle choice,” Dr. Pesce said. “For example, single women (who choose IVF) don’t have a disease, they just don’t have a partner. Same-sex couples, they don’t have disease but they are using an option that gets around the natural order of things.”
Of course, such an opinion brings out the “PC Nazis” in full force, who castigated him, and he later retracted his statement. He should have stood his ground; such IVF treatments should not be taxpayer-funded. (I sent in a letter, but it was not published.) This entitlement attitude has gone too far.
“ ‘No need to expand city’s boundary’ ”, The Age, 8/8. Yet another article saying Melbourne could accommodate millions more people if unused land was utilized and high-density developments encouraged. As usual, not a mention of restricting population growth so that open land can be kept that way.
“Reduce intake of immigrants, MP Kelvin Thomson says”, Herald-Sun, 8/8. He makes the reasonable suggestion that reducing the unsustainably high level of immigration will make it easier for authorities to identify dubious types trying to enter the country.
