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The Sydney small businessman believes the Prime Minister’s remarks were so out of keeping with the feelings of most voters, he decided to form a political party.
Although he has never been involved in politics, Mr Bourke, 39, said his instincts told him Mr Rudd had slipped up badly last year when he said:” ”I actually believe in a big Australia – I make no apology for that. I actually think it’s good news that our population is growing.”
Mr Bourke says the huge increases in population forecast by the federal Treasury in its third intergenerational report are a direct result of government policies, including record immigration levels and the baby bonus. Yet the only public debate is on how to deal with the consequences of so many more people, not whether such growth is desirable.
English test for migration revamp to favour doctors, nurses and teachers
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd dressed as a surgeon / Jon Kudelka cartoon Source: The Daily Telegraph
FOREIGN doctors, nurses and school teachers who speak good English and have jobs already organised will be Australia’s top priority migrants under a major overhaul of immigration policy.
The changes, to be unveiled by Immigration Minister Chris Evans today, are expected to target professionals with university degrees who are sponsored by employers and discourage self-nominating migrants such as cooks, hairdressers and accountants.
The new policy will axe the Migration Occupations on Demand List, which lists 106 occupations in demand.
Critics say government lacks credibility as emissions rose 6.25% in 2008 – while overall the UK’s fell by 2%
DECC map of UK carbon emissions Photograph: Public Domain
Public sector greenhouse gas emissions rose by 6.25% in 2008 despite overall UK emissions falling by almost 2%, analysis of government figures showed today.
While sectors such as energy supply, agriculture, transport, businesses and industrial processes saw emissions drop, the public sector saw emissions rise from 9.6m tonnes of CO2 equivalent (Mt CO2e) to 10.2 MtCO2e. Housing was the only other sector with growing greenhouse gases, with emissions from domestic heating rising from 81.8 to 84.4 MtCO2e, or 3.1%.
Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat shadow secretary of state for energy and climate changes, speaking at the Guardian Public Services Summit today, said it was a scandal that the one part of the economy directly controlled by the government had seen its emissions rise while other sectors fell. “How can the Labour government expect to be taken seriously at home and around the world if it can not get its own emissions under control? Last year the government rejected my motion to sign the public sector up to the 10:10 campaign. Either Labour has a lack of ambition or a lack of confidence or both,” Hughes added.
Barack Obama will also propose a tripling of government funding for new nuclear reactors to more than $54bn
US federal government and agencies have pledged to cut their carbon emissions by 28% by 2020. Photograph: Corbis
Barack Obama used his presidential authority to help advance his climate change agenda today, announcing that the US federal government and agencies would cut their giant carbon footprints by 28% by 2020.
Following a special investigation by the Guardian this week, we discuss the hacked climate change emails at the University of East Anglia, and the issue of trust in the global warming deba
As the consensus on climate change comes under sustained attack following more revelations from leaked emails and a climbdown on melting glaciers from the UN climate agency we ask: can the trust in the science be restored and how solid is the consensus?