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From the Sydney Morning Herald:   Focus on family planning as Carr doubles foreign aid     AS WORLD leaders convene for a major family planning summit in London, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, said Australia would double its overseas aid for family planning programs to more than $50 million a year by 2016.

Senior Coalition strategists and MPs believe they can win the election this year, reducing the Rudd government to a one-term wonder. ”Internal party polling also shows voters in outer metropolitan seats are listening to the Coalition’s messages about border protection and population growth, The Sun-Herald has learned. People are increasingly worried about the time it

Kevin Rudd is not like an earlier generation of political leaders who feared that impoverished Asian hordes would pour down and eat our lunch. His worry is that their offspring can now afford to come armed with the latest weapons and steal our lunch. His solution, however, is much the same. We must ‘populate or