CANBERRA, Australia - Couples in Australia now have a nice
incentive to have children - 2,000 bucks for every baby
born after June. Peter Costello, the treasurer of the
country, said that two children per couple in a nation of
20 million just isn't enough to sustain growth. He said it
is the "patriotic duty" of couples to have at least three
children. The initiative will be up for grabs for the next
five years. "You should have ... one for your husband, one
for your wife, and one for your country," Costello said.
Some couples might have to go even further and have extra
children "for your country" to accommodate for the gap left
by those "who are not even replicating themselves." The
father of three ended the news conference by telling repor-
ters, "You go home and do your patriotic duty tonight."

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Think they are trying to make us breed like rabbits
There is enough people in the world

Is this for real? Isn't there enough people in the world already!

Thats great!

It's true to a point, the rich are about the only one's who will get the money

The way I understood it is the world as a whole is underpopulated. Just because some areas are overpopulated doesn't change that.
We needs more babies

We're still not underpopulated. Anymore huge population growths and I doubt the ecosystem could handle it.

It's already on the edge as it is.

And seriously, we need to get homes for those in foster care before cranking out more.

The world is over populated in some areas and underpopulated in others. It does not even out. And adopting is not going to resolve the issue.

just so his comments aren't taken out of context, the whole patriotic duty etc was tongue in cheek, just in case some of you guys missed that from the article:)

lol, this one of many things that makes me wanna move to Oz.

Silver,
I tottaly agree with you, we are over populated. We don't more babies, we need to shuffle our kind more!

Maybe they want to fill out the outback a bit more. I also don't see many people near the norht pole. Come on, it get's warmer the closer you get. You might even need to bring your summer clothes with you.

Canada has, what, 30 million people.
England has 60 million people.
Canada is about 20-30 times the size of England.

Doesn't make sense huh. Same with Australia. They have so much room!

Does this guy actually know what he's talking about ?

i don't know about the 10% thing..i reckon you could probably live anywhere...so long as you don't mind getting your supplies dropped in by plane and your only communication with other civilisation being through the use of a crackly radio. sounds like fun huh!?