My own SEQ Regional Plan Submission

The petition at Stop the Government from populating the life out of South East Queensland! is a horrible and misguided attempt by what must be a bunch of selfish yuppies or lunatic pseudo-greenies who have no real interest in the environment beyond their own rat hole.

My version, a quick rewrite of the original, follows:

South East Queensland is already under severe stress due to overpopulation. All our major problems are due to having more people in the Region than man-made resources can support. Infrastructure needs to be developed in a timely fashion to support the expected increase in population. I make my submission under the following headings of the Draft SEQ Regional Plan 2009-31:

PART D section 1: Sustainability and Climate Change
1. Overpopulation and overconsumption of the world’s resources are the root cause of Climate Change. This however has nothing to do with people's wish to move to SEQ.

PART D Section 2: Natural Environment
2. SEQ’s biodiversity is among the highest in Australia; population growth is threatening koalas and other wildlife with extinction ; protect our remaining open space for wildlife and public recreation. Plan and develop limited areas, eg Southport and others with medium and high density residential and commercial buildings, to keep population sprawl from designated recreation andopen spaces.

PART D Section 3: Regional Landscape and Section 5: Rural Futures
3. Almost all SEQ’s remaining open space, farms and bushlands must be protected for future generations. There must be a plan to permanently protect these areas.

PART D Section 4: Natural Resources
4. Overpopulation / overfishing is causing the collapse of the Moreton Bay fishery; the commercial and recreational fishery will collapse entirely if it is allowed to continue.Fishing needs to be more tightly regulated, and banned completely in many areas.

PART D Section 6: Strong Communities
5. Overpopulation is changing the identity of some towns, villages and communities; community spirit and traditional bonds are being lost. Community services cannot keep pace with the demand need to be strengthened.

PART D Section 8 & 9: Smart Growth / Economic Development
6. Basing the region’s economic wellbeing on building houses does not equate to offering the people of SEQ full employment aboard the Titanic. However we also need new jobs in green 21st Century industries.

PART D Section 10: Infrastructure
7. We must provide hospitals, schools, transport, water and energy to any growing population. We who are here now need to plan for and welcome new inhabitants, and never adopt any self-centred selfish 'I was here first, so you can go away.' attitude.

PART D Section 11: Water Management
8. Don’t ask us to reduce water consumption, but rather plan and develop appropriate water supply.

PART D Section 12: Integrated Transport
9. Our roads, trains and buses are overloaded and failing now; transport systems will collapse under another 1.3 million people; the government must act now to plan and develop the infrastructure for this many people.

PART F
10. Regulatory provisions must be rewritten to protect the environment.