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Stable Population Party 'green-washing' racism

By Malcolm King - posted Thursday, 22 August 2013


At the Federal election the SPP - which claims to be an environmental party - has preferenced One Nation, the Australian Motoring Party, the Shooters and Fishers Party, Palmer's United Party, Family First and Katter's Australian Party ahead of the Greens.

If one voted on SPP preference guidelines, you would support kicking out the Asians, raising tariffs, shooting wildlife in national parks, eschewing contraception, building more mines and raising jingoism to a fine art.

The SPA and SPP are the latest incarnation of the global Population Control movement. The anti-populationists invoke the concept of lebensraum. For them nations are bodies and political borders must accommodate biological processes of growth. They are fixated on boundaries, systems and limits to growth rather than potential.

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Yet the SPP has done nothing to reduce Australian consumption rates, constrain extractive industries or hold polluters accountable. They're working over time to convince environmentalists and community groups to do their dirty work by blaming immigrants for environmental degradation.

The SPP's relationship with these offshore anti-immigration groups is dodgy. Its use of second hand and online 'fellow-traveller' sources to support its absurd and fantastical arguments, is the stuff of Dada. But they will get votes from the survivalists cradling guns, from the romper stompers and from a few former inner suburban Democrats who lost the plot many years ago.

The SPP's aim is to split the Green Party vote, shaft immigrants and create Fortress Australia. Send them packing.

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Malcolm King is a journalist and professional writer. He was an associate director at DEEWR Labour Market Strategy in Canberra and the senior communications strategist at Carnegie Mellon University in Adelaide. He runs a writing business called Republic.

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