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The debate we had to have (Election 2010)

This category is to enable highly political statements during the election period leading to the 21st August Federal election, to be recorded with links to the original content.

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1	Speech: 'Forward to a sustainable Australia', Eidos Institute, Brisbane 18th July 2010 Julia Gillard - Eidos is one of the nation’s leading public policy think tanks and I’m delighted to be here at the start of our nation’s 43rd Federal election campaign, a campaign in which the Australian people have the opportunity to exercise their most precious right in our democracy, the right to vote. .....	55
2	Words, but little real policy 20th July 2010 FOR most of the business community, this election campaign already feels too long. They know there will be little hope of rational discussion until Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott actually wins the election and gets back to making policy rather than making announcements, according to focus group polling.	52
3	We need a real debate on how big we want to be 20th July 2010 WHEN Kevin Rudd last October embraced a big Australia, Labor's focus groups went ballistic as voters registered their fears. Nine months later, both political parties have so absorbed that message they are falling over themselves in the rush to close the door on immigration. Not that either side is offering a precise target or an annual immigration intake. The government has deferred policy to Minister for Sustainable Population Tony Burke, who is to come up with a plan next year. The Coalition has done better: it says its expanded Productivity and Sustainability Commission will help set broad population bands and that intakes will have to be cut in some years. But we are not having the debate we should be having -- about how to plan for growth, about infrastructure and about cultural integration.	43
4	Abbott hints at tougher population policy - 23 July 2010 Tony Abbott will unveil a new policy on population and migration in the next few days, as both sides of politics compete to promote their opposition to a “big Australia.”	41
5	Hysteria on growth threatens successful population strategy - 24 July 2010 t is just 61 years since the first Australian citizenship ceremony, in 1949, when seven men, from Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, Norway, Spain and Yugoslavia, travelled to Canberra as representatives of the states and territories where they lived, and became symbols of the New Australia. The 2493 people from 35 countries who became citizens that year, reflecting postwar geopolitics, had emigrated mainly from Italy, Poland, Greece, Germany and Yugoslavia.	33
6	Abbott set to reveal cuts to migration - 24 July 2010 Tony Abbott will grab the agenda before tomorrow night's leaders' debate with a new population policy, likely to include dramatic cuts to the migration intake.	37
7	Immigration is just another dirty word - 23 July 2010 LUNCHTIME midweek in Campbelltown's main street in the heart of western Sydney is a slow-moving affair. Cars drive in and out of the one-way street at a leisurely pace. Business is not exactly booming in most of the small, tired-looking shops. There's plenty of room on the footpath for pedestrians. But underneath the languor, there's a much more heated mood - particularly when it comes to immigration in general and boatpeople in particular."It's just too much," says one woman. "Sometimes I don't feel I'm in Australia any more. And the land can't take it."	38
8	Sustainable population increase 'achievable' - 23 July 2010 POPULATION growth is necessary and need not conflict with economic, social and environmental sustainability. The statement comes from one of Labor's three hand-picked population panellists.	35
9	Population debate overflows - 23 July 2010 Like other Australian capitals, Adelaide has grown so that it’s now straining at its boundaries, its public infrastructure completely inadequate for its exploding population, its water supply drying and its affordable housing an oxymoron.	34
10	Coalition may direct where migrants settle - 23 July 2010 A Coalition government would consider banning some migrants from settling in big cities, shadow minister for immigration Scott Morrison said yesterday. The Liberal frontbencher, campaigning in Queanbeyan with the party's candidate for Eden-Monaro David Gazard yesterday, said such a move could make Australia more liveable.	38
11	Population focus a cover for failure, says RBA director - 23 July 2010 JULIA Gillard's focus on a "sustainable population" is an excuse for failing to tackle questions on infrastructure, the environment and social policy, according to two of Australia's leading economists.	36
12	Small thinking in great leap backwards - 24 July 2010 Whatever the PM says, immigration will remain strong while there are jobs to be filled JULIA Gillard's rejection of a Big Australia as the defining point of difference between herself and Kevin Rudd is strictly a poll-driven position as distinct from being a justified policy.	41
13	Population debate needs impetus: Burke 22 July 2010 Both sides of federal politics have been slow to pick up the population debate, Sustainable Population Minister Tony Burke says.	30
14	Keep growth out of the election says Heather Ridout - 24 July 2010 Heather Ridout has condemned the move to make population an election issue and vowed she will press on with her agenda. The Australian Industry Group chief executive and the woman charged with running the Gillard government's pro-growth population panel, said population was an issue of huge importance to Australia and future economic prosperity, and should not be debated in the campaign prism.	36
15	Obama jumps to the left, Gillard steps to the right - 24 July 2010 It is often said Australian Labor stands well to the left of America's Democrats. You wouldn't know it in the run-up to elections in both countries this year. On immigration, big business and climate change, Julia Gillard is running to the right, while Barack Obama is staying to the left.	34
16	Who do they think we are - 23 July 2010 IN Labor's 2007 election campaign, strategists were convinced by their imported Geordie political adviser, Alan Milburn, that there is room for only "one fooking message" in a campaign. Three years on, the mantra seems to have stuck.	39
17	Infrastructure key to managing population: Turnbull - 23 July 2010 Former Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull upped the sustainable population debate yesterday in Brisbane describing Prime Minister Julia Gillard's sustainable Australia as "fatuous and facile".	50
18	Fertility key to sustainable population - 24 July 2010 Julia Gillard has deliberately confused population policy with refugee policy	33
19	Europe shows the alternative to growth is decline - 23 July 2010 A shrinking population and inflated expectations are a damaging mix	51
20	Split harms Labor immigration stance - 23 July 2010 LABOR frontbenchers are now conceding immigration is part of the population debate after a bruising 24 hours on the issue, in which the Liberals have seized on the government's inconsistencies.	39
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Gillard on population: An outbreak of commonsense?

Sustainable Population Australia, the nation’s only environment group campaigning on reducing human population, is greatly encouraged by the comments of incoming Prime Minister Gillard about reducing immigration.

National President of SPA, Sandra Kanck, says that after more than two decades of hammering away at this issue and the spectacular population growth, which took place under the auspices of former PM Rudd, it appears Australia now might be on the brink of an outbreak of commonsense. Full Release

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