7/09/2010
a photo from the trip to school one morning"I still call Australia...?" Development Sustainability and the Fundamental and Unprecedented Tipping Point for the Commonwealth
The Commonwealth of Australia at the dawn of this 21st century is currently facing unprecedented and fundamental issues that run deep into the very concept of the nation state. The ability of efficient governance, the capacity for population growth, and economic and environmental sustainability are all issues of a fundamental nature that are indeed reshaping and affecting the very way the individual will face up to the coming years of an ambiguous future marked by rapid change and unprecedented issues.
In the dismay of the global economic crisis, entangled in wars on many fronts, and with climate change gaining prevalence, the Commonwealth of Australian is indeed looming on serious challenges of complexity and uniqueness. Immigration has become an overtly politicised topic whereby populist policy has been adopted, fear tactics been waged and the cards of cultural clash been laded out. Refugees and asylum seekers have become victims of the politics of the Australian party system, with both sides trying to maintain their bases and influence others with unethical and impractical policy formulated by polling results and the ability to gain positive news headlines. With the ever expanding power of the influence of cyber relations and technologies clearly marking the future way of life with facebook and twitter for example having most of the world’s population signed on, censorship of the internet and online privacy have too emerged as policy the Commonwealth is trying to tackle. However, the most fundamental issue at the basis of all these aforementioned issues and problems and political policies, that is intermingled and affects all, is the necessity for development sustainability. This paradigm of development sustainability is the capability for the Commonwealth of Australia to maintain a developing and prosperous economy with rural and regional expansion whilst sustaining its natural and water resources and adopting an efficient and practical urban planning strategy.
Moreover, this development sustainability paradigm must address and appraise the ethical and practical issues and implications of the current culture and way of life the Commonwealth possess. The impacts of excessive consumerism and materialism, producing massive amounts of unrecyclable waste and creating shallow societal expectations, leading to a rise in artificial and superficial judgments of people, with an ignorance of important issues; the health and mental welfare implications of over usage of digital technologies, causing neurological shifts in mental capacities, emotional intelligence decline with the lack of personal face to face relationships; the integrity of the nation’s political figures and corporate powerbrokers, leading to an apparent failure of the democratic system of governance and the spin doctoring of real and important news to suit specific ideals, the superficiality of needed promises; these are all the issues needed to be addressed if the future of the Commonwealth of Australia is to be a solid, successful and sustainable one. Practical, efficient and ethically sound policy must be adopted, regardless of political polling, preferences and prejudices for the sake of the future and generations to come. Fundamentally, development sustainability must not just be an economic strategy, albeit this is a crux of it, but it must too be a strategy for reform in order for a better future.
Fundamentally, it is important to understand that population growth is natural and inevitable. Therefore, the necessity of a very practical and serious strategy to effectively manage the growth of Australia must be realized and political party line division must be torn away and bipartisanship must be formed. This issue of development is serious. Population growth is one of the most powerful and prevalent issues that a government and a society, and even a civilization faces. If we cast our eyes to the populations of India or China, where populations are the highest in the world, development strategy has been very poor to manage growth and consequently all aspects of life has suffered in these nations. Infrastructure, industry, health, critical and basic services and community and cultural development all are affected by this population growth. Australia now faces this in unprecedented times and in an unprecedented nature. It really is fundamental that this Commonwealth of Australia engages in this issue in effective and pragmatic ways to ensure the future to be stable. The economy’s and society’s sustainability must be an issue of an unprecedented and fundamental nature.
The basic functions of rural communities will become prominent issues, the over development of urban areas will become prevalent, the management of natural and water resources will require effectiveness on an unprecedented extent, the education and health of our children will become preeminent and the necessity of economic stability and prosperity in order to achieve the aforementioned and moreover the sustainability of all areas of socioeconomic, industrial, infrastructural and regional development must be a fundamental issue for the very future of the Commonwealth of Australia.
In the dismay of the global economic crisis, entangled in wars on many fronts, and with climate change gaining prevalence, the Commonwealth of Australian is indeed looming on serious challenges of complexity and uniqueness. Immigration has become an overtly politicised topic whereby populist policy has been adopted, fear tactics been waged and the cards of cultural clash been laded out. Refugees and asylum seekers have become victims of the politics of the Australian party system, with both sides trying to maintain their bases and influence others with unethical and impractical policy formulated by polling results and the ability to gain positive news headlines. With the ever expanding power of the influence of cyber relations and technologies clearly marking the future way of life with facebook and twitter for example having most of the world’s population signed on, censorship of the internet and online privacy have too emerged as policy the Commonwealth is trying to tackle. However, the most fundamental issue at the basis of all these aforementioned issues and problems and political policies, that is intermingled and affects all, is the necessity for development sustainability. This paradigm of development sustainability is the capability for the Commonwealth of Australia to maintain a developing and prosperous economy with rural and regional expansion whilst sustaining its natural and water resources and adopting an efficient and practical urban planning strategy.
Moreover, this development sustainability paradigm must address and appraise the ethical and practical issues and implications of the current culture and way of life the Commonwealth possess. The impacts of excessive consumerism and materialism, producing massive amounts of unrecyclable waste and creating shallow societal expectations, leading to a rise in artificial and superficial judgments of people, with an ignorance of important issues; the health and mental welfare implications of over usage of digital technologies, causing neurological shifts in mental capacities, emotional intelligence decline with the lack of personal face to face relationships; the integrity of the nation’s political figures and corporate powerbrokers, leading to an apparent failure of the democratic system of governance and the spin doctoring of real and important news to suit specific ideals, the superficiality of needed promises; these are all the issues needed to be addressed if the future of the Commonwealth of Australia is to be a solid, successful and sustainable one. Practical, efficient and ethically sound policy must be adopted, regardless of political polling, preferences and prejudices for the sake of the future and generations to come. Fundamentally, development sustainability must not just be an economic strategy, albeit this is a crux of it, but it must too be a strategy for reform in order for a better future.
Fundamentally, it is important to understand that population growth is natural and inevitable. Therefore, the necessity of a very practical and serious strategy to effectively manage the growth of Australia must be realized and political party line division must be torn away and bipartisanship must be formed. This issue of development is serious. Population growth is one of the most powerful and prevalent issues that a government and a society, and even a civilization faces. If we cast our eyes to the populations of India or China, where populations are the highest in the world, development strategy has been very poor to manage growth and consequently all aspects of life has suffered in these nations. Infrastructure, industry, health, critical and basic services and community and cultural development all are affected by this population growth. Australia now faces this in unprecedented times and in an unprecedented nature. It really is fundamental that this Commonwealth of Australia engages in this issue in effective and pragmatic ways to ensure the future to be stable. The economy’s and society’s sustainability must be an issue of an unprecedented and fundamental nature.
The basic functions of rural communities will become prominent issues, the over development of urban areas will become prevalent, the management of natural and water resources will require effectiveness on an unprecedented extent, the education and health of our children will become preeminent and the necessity of economic stability and prosperity in order to achieve the aforementioned and moreover the sustainability of all areas of socioeconomic, industrial, infrastructural and regional development must be a fundamental issue for the very future of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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