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Saturday, January 21, 2006

What does the future hold?

The face of Australia is changing:

"Melbourne population is growing more than that of any other Australian city, and over the past five years, Victoria's economy has had the biggest growth in output of any state.

"But while Victoria has become the nation's engine in absolute terms, in percentage terms it is Queensland.

"Brisbane's population is growing faster than any other capital city, and Queensland and Western Australia are enjoying the fastest growth in jobs and economic activity.

"Sydney's role is shrinking as high house prices strangle its growth. In the past four years, the NSW economy has grown by just 6.7 per cent, less than half as fast as Victoria and barely a third as fast as the rest of Australia."

2 Comments:

Blogger Ibrahamav said...

I'm glad to see Austrailia is prospering. Hopefully it will help ease your islamaniac problem.

Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:17:00 pm  
Blogger Rich Bowden said...

Our apparent fascination with economic growth is in itself unhealthy. The single minded concentration on more and more economic output is destroying our environment and changing the climate on the planet.

Witness the recently concluded climate change conference in Sydney which refused to sacrifice growth to protect the planet's climate instead providing "voluntary" targets for industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Crazy stuff...

Shouldn't the aim be moderate economic growth and concentration on alternative energy resources?

Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:17:00 am  

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