NSW Labor Leader, Michael Daley, has launched another hypocritical attack over the rampant over-development across Sydney:
Opposition leader Michael Daley on Tuesday seized on growing concerns about overdevelopment and said a Labor government would stop developers from bypassing councils…
“That is not how you plan a growing city. I don’t want a system where developers get what they want every time. I want a calm, considered and studied planning system.”
Daley is once again being hypocritical. Only recently he attacked calls to lower immigration as racist and xenophobic in an exclusive interview with The Guardian:
Daley has so far resisted the urge to use migration as a campaigning tactic. While Berejiklian has called for a cut in the state’s migration intake, Daley laid the blame on poor planning and infrastructure.
“What the Victorian election showed is that when some politicians want to talk about migration, it’s to distract from the fact that the infrastructure build is not taking place,” he said.
“That’s what people in the suburbs know. They know Sydney’s growing. They know they’ll be asked to take on more neighbours and they’re happy to do that.
“They’ll accept the growth, if they get the schools and the gardens, the community centres and the transport that goes along with it.
“Be careful of the xenophobia, the dog whistle, I don’t ever want to see that enter the political mainstream.”
Michael Daley cannot have his cake and eat it too. Mass immigration is behind the massive 800,000 increase in Sydney’s population over the past decade (80,000 people a year), which is the primary driver of the “rampant” overdevelopment afflicting the city.
Worse, the ABS’ middle (Panel B) projection has Sydney’s population growing even faster – by 94,000 people a year – for the next 48 years, with Sydney’s population to hit 9.7 million people by 2066:
The fact is, it’s impossible to have “a calm, considered and studied planning system” when Sydney is being fire hosed with so many additional people each year.
Infrastructure Australia has already told us that under every build-out scenario for Sydney, traffic congestion will deteriorate further, as will access to jobs, schools, hospitals and green space, as the city’s population balloons to a projected 7.4 million people by 2046 (let alone 9.7 million people by 2066, as projected by the ABS):
It will also see Sydney transformed into a high-rise ‘battery chook’ city, according to the Urban Taskforce:
The NSW Government is frantically trying (but failing) to keep pace with extreme population growth by spending record amounts on infrastructure – $87 billion in the last four years alone – and in the process has turned Sydney into a giant construction site. So for Daley to suggest that the NSW Government just needs to plan better and build more is flat out ridiculous. The situation will only get worse as Sydney’s population balloons by another 4.6 million people.
Rather than playing the deplorable race card in an attempt to stifle debate, Michael Daley needs to show some common sense, represent his constituents, and vigorously demand the federal government halve the immigration intake, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian has done.
Because under current policy settings, the quality of life that Sydneysiders have enjoyed for generations will be destroyed. And for what? To fatten the wallet of wealthy rent-seekers like Highrise Harry and Gerry Harvey?
The mass immigration ‘Big Australia’ policy needs to be shredded and Michael Daley must join the fight.
