SPA member Simon Cole (currently on the QLD branch committee) has launched a new online petition calling for a reconsideration of Australia’s population policy before the next Federal election. While this is not an official SPA campaign, nevertheless, we recommend heading to the change.org site and adding your signature to the petition. Link to the …
A new petition to ‘Rethink Big Australia’ before the election Read More »
Some weeks ago SPA sent a questionnaire to six political parties asking for their policy positions re population issues. In summary, we sought to find out from each of them: Their views on the optimum population for Australia and the basis for their figure; Whether they recognise that there are environmental constraints to population growth …
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:
The transcript of this morning’s Liberal announcement about its immigration target follows, featuring Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison. Abbott’s Parliamentary Secretary, dog-whistler Cory “ban the burqa” Bernardi is along for the ride. Article Link: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/07/25/abbottmorrisonbernardi-immigration-press-conference/
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:
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott wants Australians to have more babies but wants to see fewer migrants coming into the country. Article Link:
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. ….. Article …
Speech: ‘Forward to a Sustainable Australia’, Eidos Institute, Brisbane 18th 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:
THE Coalition is to announce dramatic cuts to migration levels as it seeks to outmanoeuvre the government on population and immigration. Article Link: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/abbott-flags-huge-migrant-cutback-to-curb-population-20100724-10px7.html
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. Article Link:
