Right Pulse

Julia Gillard is putting on her respectable conservative face in the lead up to the next federal election. Much like Rudd before the 2007. Remember the rhetoric about turning the boats back, economic conservatism and promises to protect marriage from a homosexual secular take over? All three promises were dumped within 1 year of Rudd’s election. I don’t expect Julia Gillard to be any different. So when she says she does not believe in a Big Australia, what does she really mean?

When Gillard talks about a sustainable population – the left really mean government controls to limit family size and encouraging more abortion. Just do a basic google news search and you’ll soon realise where the left are coming from on this issue. One wonders what her new minister for ‘sustainable population’ will be planning in the coming months. Consider the following news bite from 2009:

A population control pressure group has issued a call for the Australian government to institute a one-child policy to ensure the continent’s environmental and economic “sustainability.” Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) said this week that Australia’s 22 million people must be reduced to 7 million and that restricting each couple to one baby, as China does, is “one way of assisting to reduce the population” and avoiding “environmental suicide.” 

Given that Gillard is the leader of the looney left, where does she stand on the issue? Don’t expect a straight answer. SPA is headed by the usual ALP supporters such as Tim Flannery, Ian Lowe, etc… all members of the Australian Conservation Foundation, which is a major promoter of climate change policies and taxes. Given Gillard’s strong statements on the need to control carbon emissions through government taxes and penalties, it does not take much of an imagination to make the link between limiting people’s decisions over their own family life in accordance with Gillard’s sustainable population ideal and the climate change agenda of limiting carbon growth through abortion and one-child policies. SPA supports such a move, all of whom support Gillard’s carbon taxation agenda. ALP Victorian figure Kelvin Thompson is a major Gillard supporter and favours limiting Australia’s population to 26 million. It is likely that Gillard got the idea for sustainable population from Kelvin Thompson. He has been doing the rounds for some time now – including with SPA – spruiking his anti-family agenda to anyone that will listen. Is it any coincidence that Gillard surrounds her self with pro-abortion and anti-family political and intellectual types, all of whom are prepared to sacrifice family choice to placate the climate change gods?