CPD post: Menadue – surely we’re a better country than this?
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
CPD post: Arvanitakis on population and immigration
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Abbott on population: Babies good, immigration not so much
When Tony Abbott was giving a press conference yesterday, alongside his wife, at a child care centre at Kippa Ring in the Brisbane outer northside electorate of Petrie, he was asked if his support for benefits designed to encourage Australians [...]
Reality check: Is Sydney actually “full”?
Ever since the Penrith by-election, we’ve been hearing endlessly about Western Sydney as the epicentre of the Australian political nation. The population “debate” proclaims that we need to “pause” as outer suburban areas groan under population pressure and failing infrastructure. [...]
Reality check: East Timor denies dialogue on processing centre occurring
In tonight’s leaders’ debate, which centred almost totally on immigration, Julia Gillard reiterated her claim that dialogue was progressing with the Timorese government on the establishment of a regional processing centre for asylum seekers. That was before the debate descended [...]
Abbott’s race to the bottom on immigration
Katharine Murphy reports at the Fairfax papers: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is poised to unveil a significant cut in Australia’s annual migration intake as he tries to outflank Labor in the politically sensitive territory of boats and population. Polling shows [...]
Little Australia and the population 'debate'
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 [...]
Federal election 2010: The end of Paul Kelly's neo-liberal consensus
One day it would be interesting to research whether Paul Kelly was the first to proclaim the importance of the ‘narrative’ in Australian politics. Certainly, it’s been his leitmotif. And central to his two door-stopping tomes on recent political history [...]
Quick link: The view from Western Sydney
Bernard Keane has reproduced a very interesting Labor leaflet being distributed in the NSW electorate of Macquarie at Crikey. Go read.
The Mining industry and the Super tax
I get really annoyed when journos and biz types refer to mining companies as “miners”. Miners are not companies, but workers; the workers who actually generate the windfall profits a portion of which the Rudd government is planning to redirect [...]
The Henry Review
A summary of Ken Henry’s tax review can be read at Peter Martin’s blog. The report’s emphasis changed a fair deal along the way, a topic treated of by Martin in another post. If you’ve been wondering why Kevin Rudd’s [...]
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