By Kim on July 22, 2010
Bernard Keane has a good piece in this morning’s Crikey election special edition, reflecting on yesterday’s installment of the so-called population debate. Let’s remember that Julia Gillard linked the asylum seeker issue to infrastructure and sustainability issues in the first [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2010
As an addendum to Robert’s post on the Rudd government’s announcement of the appointment of Tony Burke as Population Minister, and the call for a national debate on population policy, I wanted to pick up on another aspect of Bernard [...]
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