Doubling
Sydney’s population is now opposed by NO main political party – though there is
some political resistance to some of the disastrous new transport options fueling
it in main cities like Sydney (ie by the Greens). Mainly such opposition is to old “solutions”
Westconnex superhighway whose interchange currently impacting on the oldest
part of Sydney Park – which is about to widen one exit road, heading madly through
narrow roads to the eastern suburbs. The
Greens, apparently, still fail to acknowledge that Westconnex is all about
building up road links to the old Mascot (Sydney) Airport.
(Since
initially writing this article as a draft in late August, the Baaad NSW Govt
had finally admitted on TV that Westconnex is indeed about building up the old
Mascot Airport – while planning no rail link to the supposed new 24/7
International airport near Liverpool – at Badgery’s Creek). The federal
Turncoat conservative Govt pretends to back the building a new International
airport out west (near Liverpool) at Badgery’s Creek – with no overnight curfew
on any flights there.
The
unlikelihood of this Cargo Cult of a project to ever go ahead, is indeed seen
in the refusal of the Abbort/Turncoat federal Govt to include ANY rail-link to
Badgerys Creek Airport – with the private owners of Mascot Airport still able to
exercise its right to “built” it, or not. Those private owners are the same
(Turncoat’s old Macquarie Bank) that opposed building a Very Fast Train from
Sydney to Canberra, as part of their deal to buy Mascot airport. By then, the
Labor federal Govt had built a Third
Runway – later causing a large part of Sydenham housing to be demolished.
Meanwhile NO
main political party (again including the Greens) is publically calling for
that Very Fast Train section to be urgently built from Sydney To Canberra (let
alone north towards Gosford as well). As mentioned, Macquarie Bank had ensured
the Govt would not build it once they bought Mascot Airport. To sweeten the
deal, the ALP federal Govt had built that Third Runway – sending many more
large planes north of the airport. The UPE was involved in the “community
advisory committee”, set up by the Govt – tasked supposedly to gather views of
locals about dealing with the resulting noise.
As part of Save
Our Sydney campaign, we made a half hour documentary about the resulting double
cross, involving demolition of whole blocks of housing under the new runway. It
is called “The Planes That Ate Sydenham” – though this excellent movie has yet
to get any public screening during the twenty years since it was built. An
expert points out that the Third Runway was built by the Govt specifically to delay
the building of a new international airport at Badgerys Creek – a “solution”which
had long been ALP policy.
This gross
betrayal helped launch the Greens as a force in Sydney inner city seats, where
its former “safe seat” MP’s are now falling over each other to implement
inner-city-centric policies, like “gay marriage”. Meanwhile urgent policies
like starting the serious decentralisation of increasingly overpopulated Sydney
with the long planned Very Fast Train are being sidelined.– are being ignored
by the major political parties. Building the cancelled section to Canberra from
Sydney (Parramatta will do) through Campbelltown and Goulbourn to Canberra –
with an International Airport, say at Goulbourn - would allow people to live
outside Sydney, without losing speedy physical access to it. The only
alternative it would be to urgently drastically cut Australia’s world beating
high migration rate. Without such high migration, Sydney’s population would be
decreasing – as so many residents keep leaving it for cheaper and better
regional areas.
A Goulbourn
international airport would allow 24/7 in bound longhaul flights for overseas
tourists – who could either shoot in to Sydney in 30 minutes by VFT, or stay
overnight/day at a local hotel, which would be far cheaper than in Sydney.
Meanwhile, locals who are leaving Sin City (Sydney) in droves for cheaper
housing (with backyards) in the regions – will still be able to commute by VTR,
to Sydney jobs. Sydney is only growing uncontrollably because most of
Australia’s crazy high migration rate – is drawn there by the ethnic ghettos
created by earlier migrants in this “world” city. These migrant cities are
losing any coherent cultural identity – creating distinct non-English language
groups around various “CBD”s across an increasingly population dense Sydney.
