Unfortunately the environmental groups like Greenpeace who champion the fight are unwilling to accept that the demand for more exports is driven by the federal government's policy of population growth, which has created a huge import bill for nearly all the components we need to build houses and infrastructure. In 2025 our imports came to $297.5 billion, up from $133 billion in 2004. The increase is a direct result of 7 million more people needing cars, whitegoods, petroleum fuels, computers, phone devices, machinery and timber, which costs us $33 billion. That's as well as food imports, which now make up 6.5 per cent of all imports. Alarmingly, an analysis by Walk Free estimated that about a third of our imports are at a high risk of being produced by modern slavery, with 90 per cent of clothing coming from countries using forced labour.