Question

10 interview questions to politichan

Answer 1

4. If people smugglers continue to “sink the boats” in the Indian Ocean outside Australia’s territorial waters, will your party commit to a let-them-drown policy if other nations do not have the capacity (or intent) to mount search and rescue efforts?

5. When will your party restore business confidence to a level that guarantees small and medium enterprises the capacity to cut the levels of youth and long-term unemployment to the level of the national average?

6. How soon can we expect assurances that sole parents and those on Newstart will be guaranteed a job at the minimum wage, or at least the increased $50 a week income insecurity payment recommended by the Business Council and ACOSS?

7. What is your response to the increased levels of preventable chronic disease and inadequate access to aged care services as many move away from the capital cities?

8. Assuming the two major parties accept the necessity to return to surplus before the next election, or a double dissolution, whichever is the sooner, what cuts in health, education, aged care and indigenous services will be fully quarantined?

9. Will your party establish both a schedule and a deadline for “Closing the Gap” for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island citizens against the Hawke promise to eradicate child poverty and subsequent governments’ commitment to bring life expectancy into parity?

10. Will your party set a deadline for achieving 1% of untied foreign aid to meet the Millennium Goals and ensure that aid assistance is not tied to Australia’s domestic and commercial policy objectives in order to eradicate poverty?