Brisbane's getting swamped

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6 yrs ago

I grew up in Brisbane when it was a relaxed, graceful city with many lovely old Queenslander houses with lush sub-tropical gardens. I left three years ago as it has become yet another impersonal over-populated modern city with more and more ugly tall apartment buildings. Houses are jammed ever closer together and the traffic is a nighmare through the advertisement-splattered streets. It is also extremely noisy.

Last year more than 5.6 million aircraft passengers passed through Brisbane's international terminal, plus more through the domestic terminals. Now, aircraft passenger numbers in Brisbane are set to increase even more with new direct flights to Beijing announced this week as part of the state government's 'connecting with Asia' initiative.

Brisbane airport corporation's Rachel Crowley said the airport was expanding — quickly.

Well, the quick expansion will slow down quite a bit when aircraft fuel is no longer available in the not-too-distant future!

I know the Brisbane airport area well. It was (and still is), a swamp, close to the sea. They fill it in and concrete over it. Not much future for this area as we get bigger storms, surges and higher tides. It will be one of the first coastal areas to be under water.

Very clever planning Brisbane.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-19/brisbane-airport-in-numbers-and-why-it-needs-to-grow-quickly/8959266

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Brisbane - beautiful one day perfect the next.

City is booming, beautiful waether 365 days in the year, tropical paradise

We should build another airport

Gold Coast airport already taking lots of traffic, perhaps its time one the size of Sydney airport on the Sunshine Coast. Plenty of land thataway

Massive Immigration is the root cause Kika.

Big Business assuring governments that we needed more and more people in order to have growth business needs. Now of course its having to acknowledge this is unsustainable.

Labor has supported mass immigration and also Hawke took donations from Business for favours on top of being supported by Union donation from members fees. Liberals as well as Nationals have also not stood up and been counted on immigration having also taken donations from big business.

Donations for favours have ruined democratic governments all over the West.

Meanwhile, all our cities see the same outcome. Being overcrowding by too many immigrants too soon for all our governments to manage nor their ability to fund necessary infrastrucures needed to cope.

We need a good common sense government in place here and overseas.

Chances are slim.

What scares me is that the World Banks may well call in debts and that could start off something too unbearable to name, never been a time where all countries seemingly are in deep debt crisis a the same time and for same reason, millions of poverty stricken citizens of failed nations seeking to come and live off the more profitable countries. And demanding more than these countries can provide but in trying too, their own people are feeling the pinch as well as debt increasing.

Both major parties have been aware of this need for stopping immigration and getting our house in order, but due to media always following the left and screaming racist or other names we have had nothing concrete done to stem the bleeding of our once great nation into debt and overcrowding poverty for far too many.

Time we faced up to it, we have to stop immigration and get our house in order.

Until we get actual jobs and houses enough for those here today already - cant see why we dont halt all immigration until we catch up, and have vacant houses and jobs going spare due to no one on the dole to fill them.

add on - I'm also not going to hold my breath that anything will be done at all. All of them with few exceptions, too interested in playing off each other at politics and of course making sure get re-elected.

And this North Korea is frightening us all

couldn't agree more, val.

We bring in 200,000 immigrants a year but our unemployment figure keeps dropping and our GDP keeps growing .

Because of our birth rate being below replacement rate and our ageing population we need young wealthy immigrants that we choose .

australia has a high birthrate in spite of what is written in the australian newspaper.

you'll find the facts on the aust. bureau of statistics website and also this one:

Sustainable Population Australia

Your quoted site says nothing about birth rates .

" Australia’s total fertility rate in 2015 was 1.81 babies per woman, changing little since 2014 (1.8).

The Bureau of Stats does above . The replacement rate is 2.1

PlanB

6 yrs ago

You thing Brisbane is bad now just wait for this

Chinese to build new $1bn City between Brisbane and the Gold Coast

https://stopforeignownershipinaustralia.com.au/2017/04/27/chinese-to-build-new-1bn-city-between-brisbane-and-the-gold-coast/

Wow - fantastic news for south east Queensland

depressing news, planB. and brisbane airport is expanding with flights to and from china.

i have nothing against chinese people, but i do not agree with the overpopulation and overurbanisation of this land.

more people, more cars, roads, pollution, ....... do we have the infrastructure to deal with this? more injured and homeless wildlife.

i'm hoping we see a bit of sea level raising. developments such as this one won't be insured and no one will buy them. same for all the canal developments on our coastlines. they will become rather wet white elephants.

PlanB

6 yrs ago

I do have a problem with so many Chinese taking over this country -- they own the very best farmlands -- even though it might be a small % as such -- Australia does not have much good land in the whole of the country and we have been selling off the best -- I do NOT agree that these workers should be brought in with their way of doing things AND maybe all the low-grade materials, as it has been proved they are doing b4.

Also, China and the Asian countries are a very cruel and money hungry lot -- and care nothing for anything but.

We must stop this selling of our arable lands to China. Come food wars they say is the reason for this buying up of food producing lands by governments, our own food security is threatened.

We dont have millions of armed soldiers - China does and are still Communists even if using Capital system to gain money which they are doing in spades. Having managed to attract much of the international companies manufacturing plants with their cheap labour. And of course if you want to have a plant making say fridges there - you cant just go and open up - have to take on board a Chinese partner.

Guess what would happen once they have the USA broke and no other country or group able to take them on!

No we dont have the sort of MPs on yesteryear when in times of stress or trouble they just nationalize for the public good.

And they are actually now doing something re Chines buying up units just to leave them vacant for investment. Means rental rise as cutting down on availabilty. And with immigration so high demand ispushing up prices of rentals as well as residential housing.

Nothing at all to do with baby boomers as media of all sides tend to use as excuse. Reserve Bank Governor did too back in 1996 when Bob Carr begged Howard to cut immigration as 1000 a week coming to Sydney.

Pity Howard didnt have the cojones to do this. Along with doing away with compulsory voting - as se would then get a better government with only those interested voting etc - he was damaged in 1988 when called a racist for saying we need to limit Asian immigration. Pity that.

Agree - dont forget chinable land to Arabs

Should stop that too

They only want our land for the oil wars. this threatens our energy security

Zicky

6 yrs ago

I was having a really good day until I read the news from Kika that the sky is falling and we'll all be doomed. Go out of the house Kika, it's a fantastic place this Australia - enjoy the beaches, the free speech, the democracy, the freedom, .....oh Kika, you're in for such a pleasant surprise.

You reinforced my belief in the old saying..."believe half of what you see and none of what you hear". Thanks.

Zicky

6 yrs ago

Ps. Kika, I can see that you and Plan B have "nothing against Asians" ????? Come on guys, we're better than that.

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