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Why is 2050 so important? What is so big that we need to prepare now? Watch the video! |
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Australia 2050 - Collaborative Nation and City Building - Brian Haratsis Australians Rock!We have built this nation the best way we knew how, and when we didn’t know how, we bluffed it brilliantly. We haven’t done a bad job all in all; we have taken on innovative ideas, added hard work, used good old Aussie ingenuity and cunning, and since the 1950’s we have:
We have achieved all this, in spite of 3 oil shocks, the Dot-Com crash, major recent conflicts including Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, the end of the Cold War followed by Russian ‘bankruptcy’, the Asian economic meltdown, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) scare, the horror of 9/11, the worst recession in Australia since 1929, a Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and losing the ashes! It isn’t all roses. The last economic boom delivered more jobs but higher house prices, with forty percent of Australians earning lower wages in real terms ... Many of our cities are congested, our public transport is under extreme pressure, economic growth is hampered by infrastructure restrictions and the liveability ranking of our cities is slipping. Australia 2050 - Collaborative Nation and City Building is a heads up for planners, developers, nation and city builders that planning and provision for the future has not changed since federation, but Australia has. |
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