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<TABLE id=msgUN border=0 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD id=msgUNsubj vAlign=top>Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Australia & UK act to cap immigration !!</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>kojakbt_89 <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>4:30 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 6) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>35306.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>Jun 28, 2010
AUSTRALIA AND BRITAIN ACT TO CAP IMMIGRATION
New Aussie PM breaks with Rudd's 'big Australia' policy
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http://www.straitstimes.com/PrimeNews/Story/STIStory_546538.html
CANBERRA: Australia's New Prime Minister Julia Gillard has signalled that her government will slow down immigration.
She disagreed with predecessor Kevin Rudd, on the 'major issue' of population policy, she said.
'I don't believe in a 'big Australia',' she said. 'I'm indicating a different approach,' she told the Nine Network's Sunday Today programme.
Ms Gillard, who wrested leadership of the government from Mr Rudd last Thursday, said yesterday___________ that the population policy needed to strike the right balance between growth and sustainability.[/SIZE]
Mr Rudd recently endorsed a 'big Australia', calling for the population to grow from 22 million today to 35 million by 2050.
'I think if you talk to the people of western Sydney or Melbourne, or the Gold Coast growth corridor in Queensland, people would look at you and say, 'Where will all these people go?',' she said.
Ms Gillard who migrated to Australia from Wales when she was four years old, said the key factor should be the governments' capacity to provide roads and services needed to sustain a larger population.
She said she would appoint a ___________Minister for Sustainable Population[/SIZE] to examine growth capacity when she announces her new Cabinet probably this week.
Australia's population grew 2 per cent mainly through immigration last year - faster than any other developed country.
(Kojakbt: Chao Chee Bye, do you guys know how much SG pop has grown???)
The countries where most immigrants to Australia in the 2008/09 financial year were born was headed by New Zealand with 33,034 people, Britain with 21,567, India with 16,909, and China, excluding the Special Administrative Region of China and Taiwan, with 14,935.
Malaysia was 9th on the list with 3,261, followed by Myanmar with 2,931 people born there settling in Australia.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship statistics show that 1,454 Singapore-born people settled in Australia that year.
Sixteen years of continuous economic growth driven by demand for Australian minerals and energy have created skill shortages, often filled by immigrants.
'This place is our sanctuary, our home, but immigration for skilled labour is still needed,' Ms Gillard said, adding that Canberra would continue to accept refugees. 'I don't want business to be held back because they couldn't find the right workers.
'But also I don't want areas of Australia with 25 per cent youth unemployment because there are no jobs.'
Opposition leader Tony Abbott accused Ms Gillard of a policy backflip.
'When the coalition said a few months ago that the population had to be sustainable we were pilloried uphill and down dale by Julia Gillard,' he told ABC television's Insiders programme.
Immigration is a sensitive issue in Australia, where rickety fishing vessels loaded with asylum seekers mainly from countries such as Afghanistan and Sri Lanka arrive most weeks, usually via Indonesia.
Under Mr Rudd, Australia suspended claims for asylum from Sri Lankans for three months and Afghans for six.
But concerns about boat people - along with the shelving of a carbon emissions trading scheme to tackle climate change and a new tax on mining profits - are believed to have caused the poor opinion polls that led Ms Gillard to contest Mr Rudd's leadership of the Labor Party.
'Bigger isn't always better,' said Mr Chuck Berger, Australian Conservation Foundation's Director of Strategic Ideas.
'More people means more roads, more urban sprawl, more dams, more power lines, more energy and water use, more pollution in our air and natural environment, and more pressure on our animals, plants, rivers, reefs and bush,' he said.
'Australia can continue to accept refugees and accommodate family reunions while reducing overall migration to sustainable levels.'
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AUSTRALIA AND BRITAIN ACT TO CAP IMMIGRATION
New Aussie PM breaks with Rudd's 'big Australia' policy
<!-- story content : start -->
http://www.straitstimes.com/PrimeNews/Story/STIStory_546538.html
CANBERRA: Australia's New Prime Minister Julia Gillard has signalled that her government will slow down immigration.
She disagreed with predecessor Kevin Rudd, on the 'major issue' of population policy, she said.
'I don't believe in a 'big Australia',' she said. 'I'm indicating a different approach,' she told the Nine Network's Sunday Today programme.
Ms Gillard, who wrested leadership of the government from Mr Rudd last Thursday, said yesterday___________ that the population policy needed to strike the right balance between growth and sustainability.[/SIZE]
Mr Rudd recently endorsed a 'big Australia', calling for the population to grow from 22 million today to 35 million by 2050.
'I think if you talk to the people of western Sydney or Melbourne, or the Gold Coast growth corridor in Queensland, people would look at you and say, 'Where will all these people go?',' she said.
Ms Gillard who migrated to Australia from Wales when she was four years old, said the key factor should be the governments' capacity to provide roads and services needed to sustain a larger population.
She said she would appoint a ___________Minister for Sustainable Population[/SIZE] to examine growth capacity when she announces her new Cabinet probably this week.
Australia's population grew 2 per cent mainly through immigration last year - faster than any other developed country.
(Kojakbt: Chao Chee Bye, do you guys know how much SG pop has grown???)
The countries where most immigrants to Australia in the 2008/09 financial year were born was headed by New Zealand with 33,034 people, Britain with 21,567, India with 16,909, and China, excluding the Special Administrative Region of China and Taiwan, with 14,935.
Malaysia was 9th on the list with 3,261, followed by Myanmar with 2,931 people born there settling in Australia.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship statistics show that 1,454 Singapore-born people settled in Australia that year.
Sixteen years of continuous economic growth driven by demand for Australian minerals and energy have created skill shortages, often filled by immigrants.
'This place is our sanctuary, our home, but immigration for skilled labour is still needed,' Ms Gillard said, adding that Canberra would continue to accept refugees. 'I don't want business to be held back because they couldn't find the right workers.
'But also I don't want areas of Australia with 25 per cent youth unemployment because there are no jobs.'
Opposition leader Tony Abbott accused Ms Gillard of a policy backflip.
'When the coalition said a few months ago that the population had to be sustainable we were pilloried uphill and down dale by Julia Gillard,' he told ABC television's Insiders programme.
Immigration is a sensitive issue in Australia, where rickety fishing vessels loaded with asylum seekers mainly from countries such as Afghanistan and Sri Lanka arrive most weeks, usually via Indonesia.
Under Mr Rudd, Australia suspended claims for asylum from Sri Lankans for three months and Afghans for six.
But concerns about boat people - along with the shelving of a carbon emissions trading scheme to tackle climate change and a new tax on mining profits - are believed to have caused the poor opinion polls that led Ms Gillard to contest Mr Rudd's leadership of the Labor Party.
'Bigger isn't always better,' said Mr Chuck Berger, Australian Conservation Foundation's Director of Strategic Ideas.
'More people means more roads, more urban sprawl, more dams, more power lines, more energy and water use, more pollution in our air and natural environment, and more pressure on our animals, plants, rivers, reefs and bush,' he said.
'Australia can continue to accept refugees and accommodate family reunions while reducing overall migration to sustainable levels.'
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