Northern plan: putting the cart before the horse?
MARK LAURIE: The recent announcement by the State Government that we are to import an additional 100,000 people and settle them in the north of Adelaide has as much apparent logic as the rain following the plough north of the Goyder line more than a century ago.
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Isn’t the starting point an economic opportunity or industry need which calls for labour rather than setting a population figure and hoping that something comes from the influx? Housing construction is a secondary or support industry. Some ongoing activity must provide the impetus for people to come to a place and stay there. The beleaguered and shrinking pool of South Australian taxpayers would prefer it wasn’t them.
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