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The Gettysburg Address is famous for its line that democratic government should be "of the people, by the people, for the people". In Australia today, unlike most other western liberal democracies including the more recent examples of the United Kingdom and the state of Tasmania, we remain stuck with a system that screams "of the Party, by the Party, for the Party". And we have a lesser democracy because of it.

Population policy is now on the Australian agenda and it is very welcome that we place population at the centre of all policy. I hope this is a genuine move by Government, and not just rhetoric or “dog whistling” as some commentators have described it.