21 March

You hear the word 'development' a lot. Usually seen as a great thing, creates money and jobs etc. What it actually creates is millions of houses sitting on often prime land, unconnected to most services or social life. Then we need massive 'transport' infrastructure to try to re-connect these houses to social life. Which then jams in gridlock. Australians see the landscape as 'property', to be developed. We’ve never understood the continent we took over, tourists in our own land.