The Basic Contents of the Greater Australia Plan

The former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government put forward the idea of "Greater Australia" and drew up a preliminary population plan, namely "Greater Australia Plan". According to this plan, by increasing the current annual number of immigrants from about10-130,000 to18-200,000, it is estimated that by 2050, the population of Australia will increase from the current 22 million to 35-40 million. The Great Australia Plan was put forward based on the increasingly complex international situation in 2 1 century, the potential threat of the rise of developing countries in East and Southeast Asia and the increasing population. At the same time, the defects of Australia's population size and structure are increasingly prominent, which makes Rudd's government have to take the rapid population growth plan as the development path for Australia to maintain its corresponding international status and protect its national interests in the 2 1 century. However, the influx of a large number of immigrants will inevitably have an impact and destructive impact on the existing order, urban infrastructure construction and public resources, and most of the debates caused by this tend to oppose the Greater Australia Plan, as evidenced by Prime Minister Gillard's public denial and proposal of a sustainable population plan. However, her plan is vague, there are no specific policies and measures, and it is not clear what kind of population size is most beneficial to Australia's development. Therefore, the debate over the Great Australia Plan has not really ended, and it is still a long way to go to explore a population plan suitable for Australia's development.