Hasbeen wrote: AS a bloke who can no longer walk more than a couple of hundred yards, I find locking areas away for a few bush walkers, & the odd university researcher quite objectionable.

Dear Hasbeen,

Coastal areas kept pristine are not only for our bushwalkers and uni researchers. They are for our food supply. Pristine areas serve as nursery for young sea creatures. They grow amid mangrove leaf litter and other detritus and later become deep sea creatures. There has been a precipitous decline in ocean species that humans use for food. The decline is not just due to overfishing and pollution. It is also due to the destruction of the coastal nurseries in which young sea creatures breed.

We also build houses and factories on good farmland because the land is more suitable for building.

We not only have to control population growth, but we also have to try to preserve the capacity to produce food for the population that we have.

david f,
You make a good point about 'young sea creachers', however, my theory here is that they do breed, get to a certain size/age, then die.

Why? Because of our insistence to eradicate mosquitoes, as mosquito lava is the first line in the food chain and it has been almost eradicated.

As for development, I would like to see laws put in place to protect our 'prime land' from development.

There is ample arid land available, not to far from cities, that could be developed at a fraction of the price of prime farming land.

Now to do this the authorities need to implement a 'PH' level for the soil and, if the 'PH' fall within a good range, then that land can't be developed.

What would be better in my view is a series of high speed rail links connecting these regional towns and they could be powered by LNG as many of these town have plenty of this.

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run/by..the public-servants...running this/state..

[aka/all state's/..all-govts..for their/mates

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[or could have..if/they..wielded it]

but they..are so into/being..the premi-er...or the ceo..

they forgot..they are there..to protect..the person..
not pander..and bail-out..the personages.[coorperate-persons]

we live-in..the time/..where the coorperate-[person]
has gotten..all/the govt service...
govt..is supposed to-be..empowerd..to give..to/the living-[person]

its a shame..we dont realise..not/all..'persons'..are real

see coorperate/'persons'...are of..limited-liability
and voter-type[living-persons]..are held to..full/accounting
[are..fully liable]

thus we/have..subverted the laws
causing many/of-the..disjoined*obsenities..we are witnessing

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and the..half-billion..was/only..to give the shareholders..a govt bail-out...[underwriting their/dividend..[as-if..the plant was real/

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[noting john-howhard...kicked-in..another half/billion]..

great scam

anyhow..i was on the/busway/yesterday..
and noted..the building of some other new cash-cow[the/eastern-buzzway..[bus-way]..

causing a three/year havoc..to by-pass stoners/corner...
and did the numbers..on that nice-contract[just for/cemment]

realised..that/our..rego/..doubling
is paying for/some-of..that cash-cow
as well/as..much of the other disruption/building/contract-oring..

done under/contract..[with our cash/fees/fine/service-charges]..

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the thought was/..all these..new bus-only roads...carrying less..[people] than...the common every-day..roads are carrying..running beside it..[crammed/with..plastic-barriers..rented/fencing..[great-contract's]

ever/new..tunnel-boring/..machines./extra..traffic..etc
all that/expenditure..to disrupt*..the traffic-flow..lol

all that cost..to build a/system..that isnt delivering
[not/now..not ever]

its just/yet..another stunt..to give some cash
to the person*s..really running/things

i recall..the current troubles in ire-land...
[the 50 billion bail-out...to buy-up..the bad-loans
of less/than..100 bad*..contracter/developer's...defaulting-loans

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and reselling the assets..on to responsable lender/opperator
..not tax-payer funded/banker..bail-out

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serving the..same dead..[coorperate/persons]criminals..connducting treasonous-frauds..

while further..impoverisahing the consumer/voter..[trust]ie..the real-person..into their early..poorper-graves

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run/by..the same boys-own/club

those..without..the testicular/body-call...
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to be equal...yet still subserviant..their under-lings

as/if..they have..testicular merrit..[inner man]..
not outer/man..cred..but creed-dentials..
[the opposing of street-cred]

rip/joe...you led..the way
too late/to change..your way/now
unless we/put..the true-criminals..into your..gulags

<< Ludwig, I think all the problems I mentioned are caused by over rapid growth. >>

YES Hasbeen!

Looking again at your list of gripes, all of them except perhaps for number 6 are connected to continuous rapid growth and the problems it creates with ever-increasing pressure on our resource base, environment, infrastructure and services.

It is surely one of the most fundamental purposes of government to prevent this crazy sort of crap from happening and to make sure that we can live within our basic means!

Ok, so successive Queensland governments have been just as hopeless as Bligh at doing this. Even the green Goss government of the early nineties just allowed population growth to continue totally unmitigated.

And you could argue that every state government has been just as bad, even the Carr government in NSW, despite Bob Carr’s very strong stance against continuous high population growth in Sydney.

But hey, when we’ve got such profound problems in SEQ, with water, congestion, and all manner of services and infrastructure not keeping up with population growth, what can you say about a government that just allows the main causal factor to continue on unchallenged?

Paradoxically, the factors that are most likely to reduce the rate of growth in SEQ are the various negative quality-of-life factors that this and previous governments have allowed to become so bad.

If only Langbroek and his mob would realise this and concentrate on policies that strongly address the continuous population growth factor, he’d be on a winner for sure with the Qld voter. But nooooooooooo, that won’t happen in a million years, will it!!