Don’t feed golfers to developers. Cut immigration instead

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Earlier this year, Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore hatched a plan to feed Sydney’s golf courses to developers:

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…

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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.