Via Tim Blair, we learn about the happiest and saddest places in Australia.
Most seem to be Labor electorates, but whether that's due to their party being out of power and voters feeling disenfranchised, or just the fact that lefties are sad sacks of shit, is not clear.
No news on where my electorate, Canberra, lies, but it's a laugh a second down here.
Trust me.
Posted by Quentin George at February 13, 2006 05:43 PMQuentin,
OT - but further to your conversation with Murph over at Tim Blair re Muslim vs Australian population increase etc ...
The ABS stats don't include projections by different communities based on different fertility rates. Being a little miffed, I knocked up a quick and dirty program that tried to project the growth of two communities from 2006 to 2050.
Assuming initial population, birth rate, female life expectancy, and immigration of the communities of 20,000,000/5,000,000, 1.7/7, 82/82, and 100,000/10,000 I got:
Community A (us) in 2050: 37,507,246
Community B (them) in 2050: 4,582,045
Note that in this model nobody dies, plus birth rates are constant, plus a whole bunch of unrealistic stuff - however it's very hard for community B to ever catch up with Community A.
In fact Community B will need a birth rate of more than 13% just to get to 20,000,000 by 2050.
Email me at robert.blair@cosmos.com.au if you want a copy of the model, so you can fiddle with the numbers yourself.
:)
Thanks for the support. I knew the other guy's figures were unreliable and there was no way Australia could be 60% Muslim by 2050.
:)
Posted by: Aidan at February 14, 2006 04:55 PMMmmmm. Maths. Population growth appears exponential but some think it's logistic ie it will plateau.
Posted by: Engels at February 15, 2006 07:34 PM