Federal Election

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

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

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:

Both sides of federal politics have been slow to pick up the population debate, Sustainable Population Minister Tony Burke says. Article Link:

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

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:

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:

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:

Julia Gillard has deliberately confused population policy with refugee policy Article Link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/fertility-key-to-sustainable-population/story-fn59niix-1225896348126

A shrinking population and inflated expectations are a damaging mix Article Link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/europe-shows-the-alternative-to-growth-is-decline/story-e6frg6zo-1225895851365