1 Extract 2 Executive Summary 3 Settlement Strategy 1 Extract The proposed Settlement Strategy addresses key issues for Australia’s future: Where and how Australians live in the next few decades How to connect them most effectively How to raise Australian innovation, international competitiveness and prosperity How to invest the next trillions of dollars, including infrastructure, […]
The Australian East Coast Mega-region
The purpose of the Australian east coast mega-region is to lift economic growth back to the pre-GFC level and make Australia more internationally competitive and prosperous. It aims to end present slow growth and perpetuate higher growth. In the process, it would distribute more of the rapid population increase to the regions and save Melbourne […]
Australian Major Cities in Perspective
Summary London and New York, with populations of 8m today, are not good models for Sydney and Melbourne populations planned to grow to +8m. There are great costs attached to Sydney and Melbourne growing to 8m. It means higher densification of middle suburbs replacing single family homes and loss of lifestyle and spatial liveability; more […]
Innovation in Mega-regions
Introduction The quite remarkable insights into innovation in mega-regions recently in Shanghai has led to new innovative strategies to increase innovation in China. It is recognised there that innovation is the foundation for progress to prosperity. Innovation, of course, has taken us from the caves. Three large new high-rise office towers were built in Shanghai […]
London’s £5 billion Sewage Project: lessons for Sydney and Melbourne
Today London is building a huge new trunk sewage main 30 metres under the bed of the River Thames, following it for some 20km through London to an expanded sewage treatment works near the mouth of the River. The tunnel is being cut by giant boring machines. It will be the size of a London […]
High Speed Rail Corridor in Australia
Purpose High Speed Rail (HSR) between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane is an interstate railway, but this is not its primary purpose. It is to facilitate population distribution from the major cities to new cities in the regions around them and to connect all the cites rapidly and cheaply. As the Australian population is projected to […]
Executive Summary
Clearly, the Australian regions need more population growth and the major cities less. An Australian mega-region provides this, together with superior economic performance and lower cost of infrastructure. One definition of mega-region is a spatial and structural outcome of urban expansion, exploitation of comparative advantage and increasing international interaction. Another is a large network of […]
Settlement Strategy
Introduction Clearly, Australia has been built by immigration. It has grown to a population of 25m. The prospects are for another 25m people in the next 50 years and possibly a further 25m thereafter. While a population policy about how many immigrants is controversial, a settlement strategy about where and how people live is less […]
An Australian Mega-region
Introduction It may be an old concept, but mega-region is being applied widely and is growing with new vigour today. It is leading edge technology for economic development. It cannot be ignored in Australia where it offers a more successful way forward. It may be challenging to adopt along the east coast, but the benefits […]
POPULATION POLICY PERISHING
WHERE AUSTRALIA IS HEADING Fifty million people within 50 years, up to 100 million by 2100, on present trends and policies. WHAT WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT How many people, what people, what skills, where we live and how we live WHERE GOVERNMENT IS TAKING US No population policy, only immigration and refugee policies Two […]