Independent candidate for Dawson Robert Jameson believes earth’s plague of humans needs to be controlled and population growth halted in order to combat climate change.

Independent candidate for Dawson Robert Jameson believes earth’s plague of humans needs to be controlled and population growth halted in order to combat climate change. Peter Holt

ON planet earth there lives a plague of humans, or so independent candidate for Dawson Robert Jameson believes.

The Mackay taxi driver and amateur scientist believes in order to combat climate change the plague needs to be controlled and population growth halted.

And it is on that premise that Mr Jameson decided to run for the seat in this year’s federal election.

He will not discuss other issues and will campaign solely on the idea that curbing population is the way to halt climate change.

Mr Jameson said he was sick of hearing talk about and various solutions to climate change when in the end there was only one viable solution.

“Everybody talks about climate change but there is one solution to it and that is less people,” Mr Jameson said.

“We need to cut out our immigration intake and we need to stop paying the baby bonus.

“People should be discouraged from having large families and we should tie our overseas aid to family planning,” he said.

“Otherwise they take the money and then we get boats of refugees asking for help.

“We have got African countries there that refuse to even provide condoms.”

Mr Jameson, who has worked in various professions including recruitment, hospitality and taxi driving, also has been a member of various political parties.

“I was a member of the Australian Labor Party for about 20 years on and off,” he said.

He has also been a member of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Greens over the last few decades.

“But they all run with issues that they think are popular and will win votes.

“They don’t want to deal with the hard issues.”

Originally from South Australia, Mr Jameson moved to Mackay about four years ago, and currently works as a taxi driver.

He calls himself an amateur scientist and is in the process of writing a book about evolutionary biology.

The issue of population is one that every person in the Dawson electorate needs to prioritise, Mr Jameson said.

“If you are a human being and you have kids and you want to pass on a liveable world to your kids and grandkids this is an issue for you,” Mr Jameson said.

“I am a single issue candidate. On planet earth we have a plague of humans.”

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