Rush to solve Melbourne housing crisis leaves questions unanswered

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Readers ask how the state government’s plans for more housing in metro Melbourne will occur given current infrastructure shortages.

To what purpose? Yes, thanks to federal and state policies, our populations are growing fast. But what is being done about the complex planning and resources required to achieve population and housing increase while not destroying our human environments?

Such a population is equivalent to two Ballarats or two Darwins added to this local council. Having limited the local planning government powers, what can this indebted state government offer in return for directing such a potential population increase? If the mooted housing increases are forced through, this will just create widespread, lifelong and poor quality of life for the residents.While it is hard to challenge the status quo of neoliberal thought, I think Millie Muroi is deeply mistaken about globalisation . Australia has been a victim of globalisation - losing everything from manufacturing to the ownership of agricultural and mining businesses due to foreign investment and takeovers.

The letter makes unfounded assertions about cost. There is ample evidence that Victorian wholesale coal and gas electricity prices are much higher than solar and wind. Nuclear is assessed to be higher still . The letter doesn’t discuss nuclear lead times, dispatchability, waste disposal, water cooling supply, or technical capability. Nor, does it identify any company in Australia that is proposing or financially backing nuclear.

 

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