Sydney has been found to be the least liveable capital city in Australia - due to its increasing population, world beating house prices and ptivate/public transport congestion. Most of the record level of immigration heads to Sydney.
Gone are the days when immigration was targetted to areas like Adelaide to boost its low population - or to regional areas to contruct national infrustracture (such as the Snowy Mountains Scheme). Now an open door immigration policy is justified on the basis of aging baby boomers leaving the workforce and big business liking for large concentrated markets at home for their goods and services. Any questioning of the doubling of Sydney population us dismssed as "racism".
The relentless remaking of Sydey as a "global" city where more and more people are of a non English speaking background - means that our culural developmemt is being turmed into global culture (ie american/asian) and local artists and creative media is dying from lack of governmenmt support. Also under threat is the environment and cities expand over farmlands while houses are no longer allowed aby sort of backyards (for vegie growing and recreation) except for the rich - more likely for their swimming pools etc.
We keep promoting the idea of building Very Fast Train (VFT) infrastructure to help decentralise overcrowded cities like Sydney. NSW Premier O'Farrell has even advocate one from Sydney to Canbrerra - with the Total Environment Centre once proposing a second International Airport at Goulbourn (on the VTR route). We also propose a continuation of a VTR from Parramaatta to Gosford - to benefit the many workers now commuting by slow train and road tollways from places like Wyong.
We propsed the VRT to an inner city ALP meeting in 2013, and soon after MP Anthony Albanese rolled out a Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane tourist type VTR plan to the media (to much ridicule from Murdock media etc). Our President wrote a paper on the VTR etc issue in 2000, which we hope to publish somehow (maybe as part of an ebook called Save Our Sydney.)
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