The current population debate in Australia needs to be full and honest

Comments on Oliver Marc Hartwich “Europe shows the alternative to growth is decline”, 23/07/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/europe-shows-the-alternative-to-growth-is-decline/story-e6frg6zo-1225895851365
While Oliver Marc Hartwich talks about Europe in the wake of the global financial crisis to say how bad the situations are that attempts to attribute problems to low or no population growth, he does not mention the case in the US. Neither does he mention per capita growth that is the key to living standards.

Are the situations in the US any better than those in Europe?

Further, the current debate on population growth in Australia is far from stagnant or decline in population - it is about how rapid the growth should be.

Such attempt to scare people with stagnant or decline in population is unhelpful to a proper debate and is highly misleading.