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Tony Abbott vowed to 'stop the boats' if elected (thus limiting immigration), despite generally supporting a population growth agenda and clearly having no way of stopping the boats. The Murdoch press attacked both major parties, accusing them of pandering to base prejudice by discussing the social impacts of immigration or suggesting that population growth had negative environmental impacts. It urged politicians to champion what it claimed were the self-evident economic benefits of rapid population growth. The issue is clearly a political hot potato.   This book clarifies the subject, as the debate has been confused by serious misconceptions. It provides an historic account of Australia's population growth and an analysis of the data. It looks at the components of the growth, such as birth rates and immigration, as well as the more recent trend of our ageing population. 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Just before he was to cross-examine Princess Diana, the London \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e complained that he was 'anti-establishment, republican and Australian' - in ascending order of horror. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInternationally recognised as one of the world's leading human rights lawyers and as an intellectual inspiration for the global justice movement, he regularly boomerangs back from leading Europe's largest civil liberties practice to the land of his birth and his youth. Just as his \u003ci\u003eHypotheticals \u003c\/i\u003edazzled television audiences, so the speeches and essays collected in this book provoke, disturb and entertain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere you will find new heroes in our history, such as the schoolteacher who stopped Ned Kelly's planned terrorist atrocity at Glenrowan, and the squadron leader who led 'the few' - the airmen who held the Japanese at bay after the fall of Singapore. There are insights into Australian education, the story of wrongly jailed Aboriginal mother Nancy Young, encounters with Vaclav Havel, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Kirby, John Mortimer and Julian Assange, the transcript of a previously banned \u003ci\u003eHypothetical\u003c\/i\u003e, reflections on worldwide problems such as torture, terrorism and the Catholic church, and much else besides. With his trademark intelligence, humour and humanity, Robertson's expatriate (but not ex-patriot) vision picks the real winners and losers in the Australian race.","brand":"Ships in 4 to 7 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41667251765406,"sku":"UBD-9780857981899","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/products\/9780857981899.jpg?v=1652154105"}],"url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/collections\/current-affairs-politics.oembed?page=73","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}