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Development Disaster for Camberwell.

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The Station that has been fought for these last 7  years has been lost and a terrible development has been approved.   This is the middle of a heritage area.   It can now happen at any station    -  be warned
We Camberwell people are in deep mourning  
 

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/tower-approved-for-camberwell-20100401-ri8p.html

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Population Growth Threatens Australian Environment

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The Windsor Story continues - Drost

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Letter to the Editor
 
Ruth William's article (Age 28) 'Halims' high-tea controversy' provides  insight into the giant Halim empire in Indonesia.     As an Australian who has lived as an expat in Jakarta Indonesia for 21 years I found it very interesting.
 

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'Ghost' immigrants - out of control

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But it is a reminder that in both countries there are powerful vested interests that profit from uncontrolled immigration, and are forever finding ways to prop a door open. See for example Michael Pascoe's article "Population policy clock ticking" from The Age, March 22nd 2010 http://www.theage.com.au/business/population-policy-clock-ticking-20100322-qpwv.html   with its frank admission that the purpose of immigration is to depress wages (" to help keep a lid on wages that would otherwise be bid higher by competition") and thus shift money from workers to employers.  In an amazingly simple scam, employers who don't want to pay competitive wages claim to have a labour shortage, the Australian Department of Immigration uncritically accepts their claim and brings in hundred or thousands of immigrants who claim to have that skill.

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Why Has Our Population Grown So Fast?

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It wasn’t so long ago that population growth was a taboo subject and if you mentioned the rate of growth must have something to do with the increase in immigration you were labelled a racist.
 
But now the general public recognize there is a connection and that our overcrowded public transport, overloaded infrastructure, traffic problems, etc are the result. There is also acceptance that the rate of growth is putting pressure on Australia’s fragile and depleted land causing further decline on our biodiversity.
 
We know that there is a housing shortage which keeps pushing up the price of housing (Australia has now become one of the countries with the most un-affordable housing rates in the world - we commit up to 50% of income to buy our first home against the US which commits only around 16%).
 

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Are we heading for an Age of Famine?

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Here's a thoroughly alarming vision of future famines by professional writer Peter Goodchild, author of Survival Skills of the North American Indians.  Another recent piece of his, "Food and Population" (February 2010) is equally interesting.
It opens
Farmers are invisible people, and middle-class city dwellers choose to pretend that the long lines of trucks bringing food into the city at dawn every day have nothing to do with the white-collar world. Perhaps it is a mark of the civilized person to believe that the essentials of food, clothing, and shelter have no relevance to daily life.
Yet if the farmers stopped sending food into the great vacuum of the metropolis, the great maw of urbanity, the city would soon start to crumble, as Britain discovered in the year 2000 [5]. The next question, then, is: Where does all this food come from?

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Madden approves a 91 mt tower at the Windsor Hotel

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Madden approves a 91 mt tower at the Windsor Hotel, an important Heritage building and it will dominate Parliament House. 
 
Madden should resign.    He is a disgrace.
 
Read this media release  - just out   will be on the news tonight.
The reason Madden gives for approving this 91 mt tower is because the owner needs it extended to make it financial.
 
What!    We have to wreck an important Heritage Building for the sake of a rich Indonesian  company  that made a bad business decision.  (Actually,truth is they  probably just want to
 get richer)
    
 

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Political Corruption through Donation Continues

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AUSTRALIA’S POPULATION – WHAT IS REALLY SUSTAINABLE? - Kelvin Thomson

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Speech by Kelvin Thomson, Federal Member for Wills, to Sustainable Population Australia (South Australia), 7 March, 2010  and (Queensland), 13 March, 2010

 

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The Resurrection of the Growth Area Tax

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Remember when this Bill was killed in the Upper House?    We wondered when  the Resurrection  would be.    Well, it did not take long, it is being resurrected now., according to this Media Release put out by Matthew Guy Shadow Planning Minister  
Suggest you start talking to the Upper House Opposition MPs to make sure it gets thrown out again

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