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Australia 2050 - Table of contents: Introduction - Australians Rock Part 1 New Challenges - A new Australia emerges 1.1 Innovation, Communication and Information Technology 1.2 Globalisation – Our new geography 1.3 Fast Growth and Fast Ageing – Our new demographics 1.4 Social Change – Our new lifestyles 1.5 Governance – Our new states Part 2 New Insights - Waves, cycles and timelines 2.1 .Waves and Cycles 2.2 Nation and City Building Era’s 2.3 Post War Reconstruction Wave 1945-1991 2.4 .Cycles
2.5 Globalisation Wave 1991-2050
Part 3. New Understanding - Growth & change 1939 to 20083.1 Population 3.2 Socio Economic 3.3 Economic 3.4 City and Regional Change 3.5 Housing Part 4. New Parameters - Where are we now4.1 Infrastructure 4.2 Productive Capacity – Food constraints 4.3 Human Resources 4.4 Environment Part 5. New Identity - A global perspective5.1 Trading Relationships 5.2 Social and Cultural Relationships 5.3 Competition and Opportunity Part 6 New Opportunities - 2050 Forecasts; Opportunities and Constraints6.1 Population – Human Resources 6.2 Social and cultural change 6.3 Economic 6.4 Proposed Infrastructure 6.5 Technology 6.6 New Productive Capacity 6.7 Information Technology 6.8 Communications 6.9 Environmental Part 7 New Directions - Our nation and city building agenda 7.1 New Objectives 7.2 New Tools 7.3 Opportunity Spectrum 7.4 Rights 7.5 Options and Ideas 7.6 Bottom Line Requirements 7.7 Private Sector 7.8 Federal Government 7.9 State Government 7.10 Local Government 7.11 Not for profit 7.12 Regulatory Frameworks 7.13 Policy Settings
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The following extract is from the book Australia 2050 by Brian Haratsis and the Macroplan Team: |
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Part 1 - Challenges From the 12th century until the 16th century Australia was mapped as part of Gondwanaland and known as Terra Australis - The Great Southern Land, a place of outstanding riches waiting to be discovered. Time has proven this theory correct But no one really saw Australia as economically significant to the world until Eddie Hargraves struck gold and started the rush that never ended between the 1850’s - 1880’s. From the 15th century the Portuguese and the Spanish had been trading between Europe, China and Japan and sailing right past our coastline in search of the valuable spice trade. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) were also well aware of Terra Australis, having established long term trading networks importing spices and pioneering the use of the “roaring 40’s” wind pattern across the Indian ocean. Although both the British and French were interested in Australia for a variety of reasons, world trade opportunities was not identified as the major reason for ongoing exploratory voyages. The ‘boom and bust’ nature of our economy was created and shaped by Australia’s dependence on imported ‘capital’ (mainly from England until federation), which was subject to dramatic, global, economic cycles. England’s numerous wartime expenditure requirements and more recently Australia’s variable conditions including drought, cyclones and bushfires have further amplified economic ‘booms and busts’ and it is sometimes hard to remember her beauty AND her terror endears this sunburnt country to her peoples. (1) Federation in 1901 was a tentative step towards the conscious decision to build a nation but it took 2 world wars and the 1929 depression for us to find a way forward. A large dose of post-war reconstruction shook us up and we began to take stock of our economic, social and environmental potential. The post World War II reconstruction effort was the first concerted attempt at Nation and City building. Plans for Nation building as distinct from city building have been few and far between since, this is partly due to the sheer scale of overcoming the outback - largely unsurveyed until after the 1950’s, (2) and the costs for large scale projects like the Adelaide-Darwin railway - first mooted in the 1850’s but not completed until 2003 due to insufficient funding. We have tried many ways to develop our nation, we tried tackling our size by sharing the load in a bid to ‘gift’ the Northern Territory to Japan and a large part of Western Australia to Israel but we needed to establish ourselves first. Up until the 1930’s we couldn’t even agree on consistent State boundaries let alone really focus on Nation building.
In the early 1950’s, economic growth of 4.2% was welcomed, not only by the relatively new Federal government (due to the expense of the war effort) but also by the States seeking to recover from the devastation of two world wars and the loss of over 100,000 Australians, in a number of major conflicts (Crimea, Korea etc). After the signing of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 (3) and the end of World War 2 in 1945, Australia entered a period of ‘populate or perish’, marking the beginning of a new Australia and defining the new challenge of post war reconstruction. In 2010 after the Global Financial Crisis, Australia will face the challenge of integrating globally. The scale and complexity of the changes we face as a nation demands radically new approaches to nation and city building. 1.1 Innovation, Communication and Information Technology (CIT) 1.2 Globalisation - Our New Geography For more information or to pre-order your copy of Australia 2050, email mel@Australia50.com |
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