Sydney Lord Mayor feeds golfers to developers

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The lengths politicians will go to support the mass immigration ponzi knows no bounds. Rather than slowing the deluge by halving immigration, Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore wants to gobble up Sydney’s golf courses:

Clover Moore renewed a push to halve the size of Moore Park Golf Course to free up more parkland for the public…

Cr Moore said reducing the course to nine holes would free up “much-needed space” for 70,000 people who would be living and working in the nearby Green Square precinct by 2030, making it Australia’s most densely populated urban area…

“There has been tremendous pressure on our parks right across the metropolitan area. It is vital that this land is shared with the broader community.”

I am not a golfer. Therefore, I personally have no problem with allowing more public use on golf courses.

But let’s not ignore the fact that Infrastructure Australia’s projections for Sydney show that access to green space, along with access to roads, public transport, jobs, schools and hospitals, will worsen as the city’s population balloons to 7.4 million people by 2046, irrespective of whether Sydney builds upwards or outwards:

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The ABS also projects that Sydney’s population will nearly double to 9.7 million people by 2066, which will obviously further erode Sydney residents’ access to open space:

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Stop the policy smoke screens. Address the prime cause of Sydney’s liveability destruction and cut immigration.

About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.