The Diaspora is not static: This is not from the report you quoted but from one done by the CEDA in \'02, from memory. Study is at work.
It quoted a figure of 60-100,000 long term expats returning to Australia per year. So in one term there is fair amount of turn over of the expat population.
The problem with gaining political voice for expats is that while away they are not on the sitting members minds because they are not in their electorate.
Then when the expats return, they are back in the political porcess and loose the drive to lobby for expat enfranchisement.
The only solution I see is to some how \'rev up\' the returning expats to lobby on arrival back in the country. Hard to do...
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Then when the expats return, they are back in the political porcess and loose the drive to lobby for expat enfranchisement. The only solution I see is to some how \'rev up\' the returning expats to lobby on arrival back in the country. Hard to do...