The downfall of Malcolm Turnbull was in large part engineered by the right wing climate denial faction of the Liberal Party – it was not merely a matter of personality clashes, as some pundits would have you believe. On this, I agree with Dennis Atkins and Alan Kohler (speaking on ABC with Geraldine Doogue): According to Atkins, "the Liberal Party seems incapable of dealing with the issue of emissions, of climate change. A senior minister who's … [Read more...]
FactCheck: Demographer Dr Liz Allen gets facts wrong on optimum level of immigration
Dr Liz Allen is a demographer at ANU and a regular commentator on population issues for the ABC. The ABC recently announced Dr Allen as one of their 'top 5 humanities researchers', which apparently means she gets to work at the ABC for a few weeks and presumably gets more gigs as an expert commentator. Dr Allen is a supporter of the trend toward a 'Big Australia', which implies continued rapid growth from our current population of 25 million … [Read more...]
The ABC, Population Growth and A Big Australia: Official Complaint
During the week commencing 12 March 2018 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired a number of programs on a Big Australia -- the phrase used to encapsulate debates about the desirability of Australia's rapid immigration-fuelled population growth. The specific programs included episodes of 4 Corners and QandA. Subsequently I submitted an official editorial complaint as per the ABC's complaint-handling process. In the complaint I took care to … [Read more...]
Dr Jonathon Sobels Nails It On Population and Immigration
For a concise, informed statement of the challenge population growth poses for Australia, this interview with Dr Jonathon Sobels is highly recommended. Dr Sobels is a senior research fellow at the University of South Australia and was the lead author of a major study, "Long-term physical implications of net overseas migration: Australia in 2050", commissioned by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship back in 2010 into the impacts of … [Read more...]
Upcoming ABC shows on population and a Big Australia
The question of Australia's population size and a 'Big Australia' will be the subject of ABC Television Four Corners and Q&A programs on Monday 12 March 2018. For details see this post at the Q&A Facebook page. Due to a virtual consensus among the major political parties (including the Greens) that a Big Australia is a Good Thing which must not be questioned, it is all that much harder to get any balance on this topic in the mainstream … [Read more...]
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