Sustainable Australia MP slams Fake Greens’ immigration hypocrisy

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By Leith van Onselen

The Sustainable Australia Party’s first elected member of parliament, MLC Clifford Hayes, delivered his maiden speech to the Victorian Parliament, attacking the Fake Greens for supporting mass immigration to the detriment of the environment, while also acknowledging his staffer – Rudd Government shadow attorney-general Kelvin Thomson. From The Australian:

[Clifford Hayes] decried Australia’s rapid population growth, saying it was a major environmental problem and attacking the Greens. “Until they address the population question, they cannot address global warming,” Mr Hayes said…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.