ALP Australian Labor Party – Julia Gillard Steven Miles (Ryan)Fiona McNamara (Dickson) – “A sustainable Australia not a big one”
[url=http://greens.org.au/policies/environment/population]The Greens on population[/url]
[url=http://www.ldp.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1156:immigration&catid=101:polici]Liberal Democrats on immigration[/url]
[url=http://www.shootersandfishers.org.au/policies/]Australian Shooters and Fishers Party[/url]
Population and Infrastructure – Vast amounts of prime farm land bush land and native forests are consumed each year by urban sprawl. Each week Australia loses more than 25 football fields of land to urban sprawl as well as the additional land for roads and other amenities. Estimated $770 billion backlog of state government infrastructure (across Australia) needs in our ports freight transport urban roads public transport and power supplies to keep up with a growing population. State governments under pressure to sell assets.
o Shadow Treasurer (LNP) will ask the Productivity and Sustainability Commission to look at population density.
o Tony Abbott (24 Jan) “Since 1970 an Australia that’s 4 times richer has more than coped with a population that’s 2 times greater. My instinct is to extend to as many people as possible the freedom and benefits of life in Australia. A larger population will bring that about provided that it’s also a more productive one.”
o Tony Abbot (later) – now talking down population growth and proposing pre-emptive caps on the immigration program.