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. Article Link:
Population Debate Overflows – 23 July 2010 Read More »
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. Article Link: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/coalition-may-direct-where-migrants-settle/1893415.aspx
Coalition May Direct Where Migrants Settle – 23 July 2010 Read More »
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. Article Link:
Population Focus a Cover for Failure, Says RBA Director – 23 July 2010 Read More »
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. Article Link:
Small Thinking in Great Leap Backwards – 24 July 2010 Read More »
Both sides of federal politics have been slow to pick up the population debate, Sustainable Population Minister Tony Burke says. Article Link:
Population Debate Needs Impetus: Burke 22 July 2010 Read More »
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
Keep growth out of the election says Heather Ridout – 24 July 2010 Read More »
THE “populate or our future fortunes will perish” cry is the ultimate national pyramid scheme NEVER mind environmental sustainability, there’s an even more fundamental disconnect in the debate, such as it is, over Australia’s population. It is that between a “big Australia” and the source of our contemporary and future prosperity. Article Link:
Population Policy a National Pyramid Scheme – 24 July 2010 Read More »
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. Article Link:
Obama Jumps to the Left, Gillard Steps to the Right – 24 July 2010 Read More »
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. Article Link:
Who Do They Think We Are – 23 July 2010 Read More »
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”. Article Link:
Infrastructure Key to Managing Population: Turnbull – 23 July 2010 Read More »
