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By Everald Compton, published 6/2/2014How we failed to build a balanced nation
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Sorry, but this is exactly what we DON’T need!
What we need is to balance the needs of our population with the ability of this continent to provide them. This requires as the most important thing a stabilisation of our population, NOT continuous rapid growth, NOT the massive growth of many regional cities and NOT an ever-rapidly-increasing demand for all manner of resources, goods, services and infrastructure.
< The bottom line is that Australia is a long way from being a nation of balanced development. >
No. The bottom line should be, and indeed MUST be; a balance between the demand for everything that we need to maintain a decent quality of life and the ability for this continent, and our ingenuity, to meet that demand, in an ongoing manner.
It has surely GOT to be all about us achieving a sustainable society, and NOT about fostering never-ending expansionism.
To this end, we should be looking at what developments are needed to reach a balance between demand and sustainable supply capability.
Some development of the sorts that you envisage would be appropriate. But we MUST start heading towards a stable population as well.