If you want a textbook example of how politicians from Australia’s major political parties are fakes, look no further than the ping pong exchange over Sydney’s woeful traffic congestion in the lead-up to the Bennelong Bi-Election:
Premier Gladys Berejiklian: “Unfortunately our Labor predecessors built units without building the infrastructure. We are now filling in those gaps”.
Kristina Keneally (ALP candidate and former Premier): “Are you serious? That’s what she said today? This Liberal Government has presided over thousands of unit approvals in Bennelong. They have presided over – the Liberals in NSW – utter congestion”.
If either party was honest, they would state that Sydney’s congestion is out of control because the federal government dramatically raised the immigration intake from the early 2000s such that it is now running some 150% above turn-of-the-century levels:
Much of this immigration has flooded into Sydney, such that the city’s population surged by some 850,000 (20%) in the 12-years to 2016:
And the NSW State Government’s own projections are for Sydney’s population to balloon by another 1.74 million over the next 20-years, 1.53 million of which will come from net overseas migration:
If the state LibLabs were genuinely concerned about Sydney’s worsening congestion, they would publicly lobby the federal government to normalise Australia’s immigration intake back to the historical average of 70,000 people a year from more than 200,000 currently, thereby reducing the population pressures afflicting Sydney:
Unfortunately, Australian politics is full of fakes that prefer spin over substance.
