Western Sydney will be expected to absorb this expansion. With the current backlog of infrastructure development Western Sydney can expect more smog, more traffic chaos, more ‘crush’ on public transport, bigger class sizes in school and longer waiting time for public hospitals.

The decision will have a dramatic impact on our quality of life.

The rational behind the decision i.e. to prevent a wages breakout and help cap inflation has been criticised by Dr Birrell, the Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University. Labor has a one track mind to immigration according to Dr Birrell.

They sure do. Past experience in Western Sydney indicates that more migrants means more Labor voters!

The Carr-Egan and Iemma-Costa governments have squandered the profits of the economic boom over the past decade. While the Howard-Costello partnership introduced economic reforms that broke the union stronghold on the waterfront and delivered a bonanza to the States through the introduction of a GST. Booming property prices resulted in a Land Tax windfall and the conversion of every pub in NSW into a mini-casino generated hundreds of millions of dollars in extra revenue.

Nobody seems to know where the money has gone. Trains only run on-time because they changed the timetables. Hospital waiting lists are not as long because they changed the definition of ‘waiting-times’. Crime statistics are down because they removed serious crimes from the list – Campbelltown is now safer than Vaucluse.
The list goes on. When one looks at the list of announcements, re-announcements and revised definitions it is clear that we are the victims of a clever smoke and mirrors campaign.

Michael Costa now has to put the State in debt to try and catch up with current planned growth. Kevin Rudd’s plan to dump an extra 350,000 immigrants in Western Sydney will blow the integrity of Costa’s budget and will have a devastating impact on the quality of life in Western Sydney.