What fanciful ideas! It is too much to expect something beneficial from science and economics illiterate greens.

< So is there anything wrong with Tony Abbott's emphasis on roads, freeways, tunnels and bridges? >

Yes Jess, there certainly is!

The most critical and obvious thing… or what should be obvious but apparently isn’t to most people… is as I previously mentioned; to steadily reduce the demand for new infrastructure by reducing immigration.

Secondly; what’s he doing that is different?? It’s just more of the same old approach! We’ve always spent an enormous amount of the budget on infrastructure (and services). For as long as we have a rapidly increasing demand, this doesn't work!!

< Genuine progress towards a sustainable future for Australia depends on investment in green infrastructure. >

It depends first and foremost on stopping the demand for everything, and the pressure on our ‘green infrastructure’, from constantly increasing.

Abbott is completely on the wrong track here. Labor has the most excellent opportunity to present the sustainability-first, stable population counter-argument…. which if explained properly and genuinely, would be bound to resonate with the voters, and win them the next election… and finally set Australia on the right path towards a sustainable future.

Kelvin Thomson is the man to lead Labor’s charge. Bill Shorten most definitely isn’t!

THIS is something that the ACF should be taking a good close look at with a very high priority... and working out a lobbying campaign to try and make it happen!