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By Kevin McCracken, published 1/10/2019The present long-running drought that has brought Sydney water catchment levels below 50% should raise concerns about the wisdom of being relaxed about a Sydney of 2-3 million more people.
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Gough Whitlam and Tom Uren, almost 50 years ago, could foresee the problem and planned for it with their Regional Cities. Today, the Morrison Government's solution is to force migrants to live in Regional towns, Unfortunately coercion does not work, especially when there is little or no work available in these regional towns and cities. You only have to look at the job vacancies on SEEK to see that the majority of positions vacant are in the regional towns and cities. It is a case of the stick being used instead of the carrot.
This Federal Government has no imagination or plan for the future. We stumble into problems of our own making: climate change, poor or no planning for these two big problems- climate change and urban planning. Yet, we have the natural resources of a large land mass and the intellectual capacity to solve problems- and yet fail to use both!! Perhaps we need another Great Depression to make our clueless leaders realize they must use our assets more wisely.