Salvos part of the problem now, it seems
Economically rationalised charity?The Salvation Army has joined a growing list of faith-based community aid organisations that have jumped onto the urban development bandwagon at measurable expense to...
View ArticleWe are being trapped by developers
Infilling and land-use planning in Victoria are simply forcible enclosures: "Enclosure involves more than land and fences, and implies more than simply privatization or takeover by the state. It is a...
View ArticleA Symbiosis Of Corruption And Ecological Destruction: Deforestation in...
Too often we fail to see the connection between the ecological destruction and cultural genocide of so-called "developing" nations and the lax immigration policies of those nations like Canada which...
View ArticlePrices rise to absorb increases in income - Article by John Kosy
Adapted from Abstractions Versus the “Real World”: Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed (13/2/2012) in Global Research.Here is a story that explains this concept. Thanks to our contributor,...
View ArticleThe irony of the Vietnam War versus the Australian Property Bubble
#F8ECE0;line-height:120%;">The Vietnam War led by the US spanned most of the 1960s through to 1975. The famous motto “All the way with LBJ” developed as a result of Australian PM Harold Holt’s...
View ArticleThings are no longer quiet around Highett
Here cdb poet, Brolga-Brolga, tells a moral tale of how a number of neighbours clubbed together to speculate on their adjacent land, but when they tried to buy again, they were already priced out of...
View Article20 July 10am Meeting to save Victoria Market from Council micro-management
Victoria Market, as we know it, is under threat. The City of Melbourne, along with the top end of town, has plans to reduce and gentrify our historic market, paying lip service only to its valued...
View ArticleA tale of three cities - and there's a sting in the tail
"This proposal by Ms Turnbull is just a diversion, an absurdity not worthy of being called a thimble and pea trick, but the agenda behind her smokescreen is worth examining. The GSC is a body set up by...
View ArticleVic State Planning thumbs nose at Victorians as it condemns Macedon Ranges to...
This disgraceful rebadged “Statement of Planning Policy” for Macedon Ranges (home of Hanging Rock) sets a damaging growth plan in concrete as State policy for Macedon Ranges for the next 50 years,...
View ArticleHalf of Western Sydney foodbowl land may have been lost to development in...
More and more farming land is being lost to other land uses such as housing on the outskirts of our cities. But how much land is being lost? And why does it matter? Our newly published research used...
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