What is innovation? The Oxford dictionary defines ‘innovate’ as to change things; to renew, alter, make new, introduce as new; to make a change in something established. ‘Innovation’ is the action of innovating; alteration of something established; introduction of a new product to the market; introduction of a new practice or method. Inventium defines innovation […]
New Innovative Cities in an Australian Mega-region
Introduction Australia seeks to grow the prosperity, liveability and wellbeing of its people. Certain government policies are the antithesis of this. Federal and State Governments, with Opposition acquiescence, plan to increase the populations of Sydney and Melbourne to +8m in mega-cities over the next 4-5 decades. Brisbane is also to double. This is the designed […]
The Badgerys Creek Airport Disaster
The Federal Government has initiated the new Badgerys Creek Airport in western Sydney before the next election. It has indefinitely deferred construction of interstate High Speed Rail (HSR) between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. It has promoted piece-meal, sub-optimum, intrastate sub-sections of interstate HSR. It has the intended consequences of growing Melbourne and Sydney into mega-cities […]
The 4th Industrial Revolution
Undoubtedly, there will be a serious economic crisis, originated domestically or imported, in the short to medium term future. Then, the major infrastructure project of interstate High Speed Rail would be undertaken to stimulate recovery and budget repair. The tsunami warning for the 4th Industrial Revolution has been sounded in Australia. The first modest early […]
The Future of Australia
Australians have a critical issue to decide: do they want two mega-cities (Sydney and Melbourne), or one mega-region encompassing Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and cities along the east coast? Australian authorities are already planning two highly densified mega-cities of 8 million people each. The fundamental problem with this is that their population projections are getting […]
Australia: Two Mega-cities or a Mega-region?
Introduction There does not appear to be a commonly held vision for Australia’s future for all to pull towards. Only recently has there been public debate on immigration and population, major components of the future. Federal Government policy sets the direction and scale of population and immigration, which implies a vision for the future that […]
A Bigger Vision
The ABS long-term Australian population projections are for 48m (high) or 36m (low) in 2061; and 70m (high) or 42m (low) in 2101. All are a large increase on the present population of 24m. Where and how will people live? IA has proposed far higher densification of Melbourne and Sydney in its 3 scenarios. There […]
Three Population Scenarios
Short-term thinking is a problem. Developing a vision for 50-100 years and creating a new acceptable environment are crucial to adoption of HSR and benefitting from population increase. In its briefest form, the vision can come out of or take account of 3 basic, embryo scenarios on Australia’s future population: 1) A doubling or more […]
Removal of Melbourne Metro Tunnel Spoil
It has been announced that the Metro rail tunnel under Swanston Street through the Melbourne CBD will not be drilled by the boring machine, and that 350,000 to 450,000 loads of rock spoil will be mined and removed from there by heavy diesel trucks. The trucks will cause enormous disruption as they travel through the […]
Financing for High-Speed Rail in Australia
Introduction Australia faces two serious situations which High Speed Rail (HSR) and Fast Freight Rail (FFR) would resolve together. First, the population of Australia and that of its cities, especially Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, are projected to about double in the next 3-4 decades. The consequences would be exponential increase in congestion, which is already […]