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The citizens of Bengaluru feel the Land Use-Land Cover (LULC), which includes reduction in green spaces and overexploitation of groundwater are the major environmental concerns bothering them, according to the Bengaluru Environment Report Card released by the Centre for Science and Development.

The study examined the citizens perspectives on the environmental issues concerning Bengaluru through a random sample survey carried out in 1,842 households and 440 commercial establishments across the municipal limits between 2020 and 2021.

There is a general positive response from citizens for environment related civic services water supply, quality, waste management, renewable energy. There is much dissatisfaction on core environment issues of tree cover, parks, lakes, lakes pollution and biodiversity, the report released on Tuesday evening said.

Trends in land use change, decrease in green cover and over exploitation of groundwater shows intense competition for land and water resources, affecting our natural capital-native vegetation, soil, lakes and biodiversity, the report added.

The report further said there is only one tree for seven persons in the city.

Around 50 lakes have lost their character due to developmental activities in the past. The major factor influencing the land use land cover in Bengaluru is the liberal land conversion policy, the report added.

While the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) states the number of parks in the city has increased, the study said the local citizens believe these parks are not well maintained.

The study also raises few concerns such as the need to provide better infrastructure across different regions in the city.

The lack of public sanitation facilities was cited as a major concern by more than 85 per cent of respondents across all zones. Maintenance of the sanitation facilities is an issue as reported by the respondents in RR Nagar and South Zones of the BBMP, the report said.

The study also found that slum dwellers are concerned about the water quality.

The water on surface and borewell tests indicate that it is often unsuitable for human consumption. Nitrates and coliforms are found in a wide range of environments. The implementation of Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) is less than 36 per cent of households, hotels, schools and hospitals, while in the residential areas it is hundred percent, the report said.

High potassium content was found in Dasarahalli, Belhalli and Jakkur areas, which means growth of plants can be affected.

Karnataka State Pollution Control Board member secretary Srinivasulu said: While we have the data about the pollution level in the city, we should think on how to utilise the data to bring down the level of pollution. Sewage is a major concern. The city generates 1,400 MLD of sewage.

Vijay Mohan Raj, principal secretary (forest, ecology and environment) said this report does not make anybody happy.

We should rethink the way we see Bengaluru. Has the city exceeded its carrying capacity is the question we need to look at. Behavioral change is needed. Sikkim has banned all small plastic water bottles. We should also do the same, he added.

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The BC NDP and BC Liberals traded barbs Thursday over a planned new hospital in Cloverdale as the South Surrey byelection heats up.

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix appeared with NDP candidate Pauline Greaves to tout the new $1.72-billion facility, slated for 180 Street next to Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Last month, the NDP government unveiled details about the hospital, which will include 168 beds, a 55-space emergency room and a cancer centre.

Dix called the facility critical to the rapidly growing city on track to be B.C.s largest by the middle of the next decade.

And he accused the BC Liberals of taking steps during their last term in power to derail the project.

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The NDP in a previous iteration bought the land. The Liberal Party promised a hospital, Dix said.

(BC Liberal Leader) Kevin Falcon was an MLA here, he promised a hospital in the 2005 election, and he broke his word. And he didnt just break his word, he sold the land.

The parcel of land proposed for a previous iteration of the hospital was among many the former BC Liberal government sold for just under $500 million between 2013 and 2015.

The Liberals, however, are accusing the NDP of failing on their own hospital pledge by building what they describe as a glorified urgent care centre.

The NDP promised Surrey voters a full-servicehospital, but all theyre getting is a glorified urgent care centre with just 168 beds, no ICU, and no maternity ward in Cloverdale, Falcon said in a statement Thrusday.

Were committed to getting things done in Surrey, and residents can expect a BC Liberal government to deliver a full-servicehospitalto meet the vital needs of their community, not just the NDPs glorified clinic.

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Health care is shaping up to be a key issue in the byelection, as the province grapples with a family doctor shortage, emergency room closures in small and rural communities and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Earlier this week BC Liberal South Surrey candidate Elenore Sturko and Green Party candidate Simran Sarai slammed the government over long ambulance wait times, after a Surrey senior was left waiting 10 hours for an ambulance with a broken hip.

Construction of the new Surrey hospital is slated to begin next summer, with a completion target of 2027.

South Surrey voters go to the polls on Sept. 10.

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(August 25, 2022 / Jewish Journal) Editors note: Excerpted from the new three-volume set, Theodor Herzl: Zionist Writings, the inaugural publication of The Library of the Jewish People edited by Gil Troy, to be published this August marking the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress. This is the second article in a series. The first in the series is available here.

Theodor Herzl was born on May 2, 1860, in Pest, Hungary, across the River Danube from Buda. The second child and only son of a successful businessman, Jakob, he was raised to fit in to the elegant, sophisticated society his family and a fraction of his people had fought so hard to enter. But it is too easy to caricature his upbringing as fully emancipated and assimilated.

His paternal grandfather, Simon Loeb Herzl, came from Semlin, todays Zemun, now incorporated into Belgrade. There, Simon befriended Rabbi Judah ben Solomon Chai Alkalai. This prominent Sephardic leader was an early Zionist, scarred by the crude anti-Semitism of the Damascus Blood Libel of 1840, inspired by the old-new Greek War of Independence in the 1820sand energized by the spiritual and agricultural possibilities of returning the Jews to their natural habitat, their homeland in the Land of Israel. It is plausible that the grandfather conveyed some of those ideas, some of that excitement, to his grandson.

Still, the move from Semlin to Budapest, from poverty to wealth, from intense Jewish living in the ghetto to emancipated European ways in the city, placed the Herzl family at the intersection of many of his eras defining currents.

The 1800s were years of changeand of isms. Creative ideas erupted amid the disruptions of industrialization, urbanization and capitalism. Three defining ideologies were rationalism, liberalism and nationalismwith each one shaping the next. The Age of Reason, the Enlightenmentscience itselfrose thanks to rationalism. Life was no longer organized around believing in God and serving your king, but following logic, facts, objective truth. The logic of reason flowed naturally to liberalism, an expansive political ideology rooted in recognizing every individuals inherent rights. Finally, as polities became less God-and-king-centered, nationalism filled in the God-sized hole in many peoples hearts. Individuals bonded based on their common heritage, language, ethnicity, or regional prideand needs.

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Ideas are not static. In an ideological age rippling with such dramatic changes, the different isms kept colliding and fusing, like atoms becoming molecular compounds. Some combinations proved more stableand constructivethan others.

Liberalism combined with nationalism created Americanism, the democratic model wherein individual rights flourished in a collective context yielding the liberal-democratic nation-state. An offshoot of liberalism emphasizing equality more than rights fused with rationalism and created Marxism, although Karl Marx admitted his theories could only be enacted with irrational terror. Marxism with that violent streak, drained of liberalism, became communism, while a hyper-nationalism, rooted in blood-and-soil loyalty, and the kind of Marxist rationalism and totalitarianism also drained of any liberalism, created Nazism.

A similar impressionistic summary of the Jewish experience would track how the nineteenth centurys ideological clashes shaped the major movements and institutions still defining Judaism, from the Reform movement to Zionism, from the modern synagogue to the State of Israel. Judaism and rationalism set off the explosion of scholarshipthe Wissenschaftwhile Judaism mixed with liberalism triggered the Reform and Conservative movements theological inventiveness. In response, ultra-Orthodoxy emerged, hostile to changeessentially subtracting liberalism from Judaism. Modern Orthodoxy synthesized, accepting some liberalism in Judaism and eventually Jewish nationalism without too much rationalism. And, thanks to Herzl and others, the compound of Judaism and liberalism and nationalism yielded Zionism.

The actual historical process was much messier. It began with the great double-edged sword of European Emancipation. First in the West, then in the East, some Europeans welcomed Jews with equal rights and extraordinary opportunities, liberating many to move to the citiesand for a few to succeed on legendary scales. Moses Mendelssohn (17291786), the Herzl of the HaskalaEnlightenmentwas a Jew who as a philosopher dazzled Berlin. But, unlike Herzl, Mendelssohn was so fluent in Judaism and Hebrew that in 1783 he started translating much of the Bible into High German, adding commentary sporadically too. Mendelssohn epitomized the Haskala ideal of being a full, functioning, literate Jew in the house and a full, functioning, popular man on the street. And, unlike Herzl, Mendelssohn was ugly, infamously so, a walking ghetto stereotype with his crooked back and hooked nose.

Mendelssohn was accepted. Jews, however, realized that Europes embrace often came at a cost: Jews had to be willing to give up their Jewishness, to fit in so much that many lost their way. Mendelssohn had six children who survived into adulthoodonly two remained Jewish. Most disturbing, the Jewish rush into modern European society triggered a backlash, an updated, racist Jew-hatred that became increasingly potent as nationalist demagogues blamed the eras problems on Europes traditional scapegoat, the Jews.

Rather than being welcomed smoothly into European life, most Jews felt mugged by modernity. The complex realities never matched the euphoric hopes of themaskilim, the Enlightened Reformers, that their people would awake from their ghetto-imposed long slumber, as the Russian-JewishmaskilY. L. Gordon would write in Hebrew in 1866.

Developing Mendelssohns vision as the pioneering Jewish modernizer, Gordon celebrated the essential bargain Jews like Theodor and his parents accepted. The deal was: Be a man when you wander outside and a Jew when at home. In Herzls householdlike so many other bourgeois Jewish homesthe success in looking normal on the streets came at a high Jewish cost, even at home.

For Herzl and his family, Middle European Jews caught in the middle, every educational choice became a marker. Were you looking backward to your traditional past or forward to your enlightened future? Initially, Herzls parents, Jakob and Jeannette ne Diamant, tried doing both. When their son was eight days old, they initiated their son Theodor into the great identity juggle by giving him a Hebrew nameBinyamin Zeev.

Ultimately, then, Binyamin Zeev Herzl was far more rooted in Judaismand the Jewish struggle of the nineteenth century, than most legends acknowledge.

Professor Gil Troy is the author of The Zionist Ideas and the editor of the three-volume set Theodor Herzl: Zionist Writings, the inaugural publication of the Library of the Jewish People, to be published this August marking the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress.

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SODELPA MP Mosese Bulitavu (From left), Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama.

Social Democratic Liberal Party MP, Mosese Bulitavu says that he and a few other members of the party sensitized iTaukei issues to attract indigenous votes before 2014 and 2018.

In screenshots posted on his Facebook page, Bulitavu says he crafted their campaign message around 17 matters to get votes in their favour.

The 17 sensitized issues include the suspension of the GCC Regulation of 2007, Native Land Trust Decree no2 of 2009, Land Use Decree no36 of 2010, and iTaukei Affairs (Amendment) Decree no22 of 2012, amongst a few others.

Bulitavu admits in the comment section of the post that the message was first preached at the Civic Centre in Labasa in June of 2014 and was taken on board by SODELPA.

Bulitavu also admits that he made DVD discs after it was taken on board including Niko Nawaikulas NGO Fiji Native Tribal Congress.

The SODELPA MP in his comment clarified that all this was a campaign strategy to draw indigenous support and the political ploy then was to use Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyums thesis as the baseline to portray the decrees as part of the sun set clause implementation.

Bulitavu further adds that the tactic used was to project that Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama was allowing Sayed-Khaiyum to weaken iTaukei rights.

The Vanua Levu MP says this needs to be highlighted as it must not be encouraged because it promotes discrimination.

This is the first time Bulitavu has admitted to this as he and Nawaikula were accused of this in the past by Sayed-Khaiyum.

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Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Jim Leiker is professor of history at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park.

When pro-Trump extremists converged in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, they followed precedents that had been in the works for a long time.

In winter 1979, the American Agriculture Movement led a tractorcade from the Midwest and plains to the U.S. capital. AAMs goal was to draw attention to the nations agricultural crisis. Since 1935, half of farms on the Great Plains had failed. Those who did not had to expand and become more dependent on loans and expensive equipment.

When grain and livestock prices fell in the 1970s, foreclosures became a common sight. So did closings of schools, small-town banks, and businesses. People left land and homes that had been family owned for generations.

With the Rev. Martin Luther Kings landmark March on Washington only 16 years past, AAM had good reason to think such a demonstration would succeed. But urbanites in the D.C. area proved unsympathetic.

When a blizzard hit the capital, farmers used their equipment to help plow the streets and get the city functioning. However, this tended to get lost amid news media accounts of snarled traffic and scarred lawns on the Mall. Headlines like Harvest of Ill Will and The Farmers Tantrum dominated national news.

Conservative columnist James Kilpatrick wrote: By equating themselves with the hippies, yippies, long-hairs and loonies of the 60s, they have done a disservice to farming generally.

The ideological trail that led to Jan. 6 began for many in the tractorcades aftermath.

After the negative publicity, more than half of AAMs local chapters closed over the next two years. Some farmers started exploring alternate markets for their grain, such as gasohol. Others discovered common cause with feminists and civil rights advocates, whom they saw as fellow oppressed minorities. For a few, stubborn forms of rural nationalism and racist conspiracy theories became convenient ways to explain their predicaments.

Some farmers started exploring alternate markets for their grain, such as gasohol. Others discovered common cause with feminists and civil rights advocates, whom they saw as fellow oppressed minorities. For a few, stubborn forms of rural nationalism and racist conspiracy theories became convenient ways to explain their predicaments.

Eastern Colorado and western Kansas played prominent roles. In January 1983, police used mace and tear gas to break up farmers who tried to force their way into the Baca County, Colorado, courthouse to stop a foreclosure auction. A year earlier, 56 people attended an ecological seminar near Weskan, on the states border, that taught camouflage, hand-to-hand combat, and construction of pipe bombs for home defense.

Through the 1980s, propaganda from the John Birch Society and the posse comitatus started finding its way onto kitchen tables and into after-church socials. Christian Identity literature described Kansas as the site of Armageddons Battle of the Wheat Fields, when farmers would make their stand against urban Black and Jewish people storming the countryside, looking for food.

In 1985, the FBI and Kansas Crime Prevention Association claimed that foreclosures in the Plains region elevated membership in paramilitary organizations to more than 2 million.

With some violent exceptions, the militia movement largely spent itself in the 1990s. But thanks to the rhetoric of charismatic politicians, its ideology of armed anti-government resistance and liberal-elite conspiracies, fomented in corrupt Eastern cities, found a home in mainstream conservatism during the decades ahead.

It would be a mistake to exaggerate the rural origins of the insurrection of Jan. 6. Many who stormed the Capitol that day came from cities and suburbs. They were factory workers, Realtors, IT technicians hardly the kind of angry pickup-driving types often assumed in stereotypes about Trump supporters.

But that event did culminate from, and contribute to, a growing city-country split that becomes more evident with each election.

Kansas leaders ignore this history at their peril.

Depopulation in our rural areas continues strong. Each census reveals more parts of Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas returning to the 1890 definition of frontier as having less than two people per square mile. Those who leave tend to be young, better educated and politically moderate, more prepared to pursue opportunities elsewhere.

What remains are aging communities more isolated, and more prone to radical thought and behavior, than before.

A review of the county breakdowns on the Aug. 2 vote shows a clear rejection of the Value Them Both abortion amendment in urban areas. Yet even in most rural counties, surprising numbers of No votes in excess of 40% occurred, proving you cant always know a person by their ZIP code.

Progressives might have a rare opportunity here to build bridges. But that will require sensitivity, some acknowledgement that the fears of rural Kansans about their way of life being under attack are real, because they are.

Indifferent shrugs and a concession to the inevitability of metropolitan life will be insufficient.

Through its opinion section, the Kansas Reflector works to amplify the voices of people who are affected by public policies or excluded from public debate. Find information, including how to submit your own commentary,here.

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Toronto has established itself as one of the worlds premier tech hubs, with the University of Toronto making key contributions to an innovation ecosystem that is flush with talent and welcoming to startups and tech giants alike, according to a leadingDutchfinancial newspaper.

Thefeature article inHet Financieele Dagblad, or FD,explores the strengths of Torontos tech scene and echoes observations made earlier this year by the New York Times.Many people who have lived in Toronto for years feel a confidence in the city that wasnt there five or six years ago, Jon French, director of U of T Entrepreneurship, tells the paper (according to a translation).

That growing confidence, FD reports, is exemplified bytech entrepreneurs increasingly choosing to stay in Toronto attracted by the citys livability, diversity and talent pool rather than move to Silicon Valley. "When I studied in Toronto, about 10 years ago, there was a perception that you had to go to California or New York to make a career," Nick Frosst, co-founder of AI language processing startup Cohere, told FD. I hardly hear that myth anymore. Fellow students who have stayed in Canada have built just as good careers as those who left for the U.S.

FD highlights the seminal contributions of University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hintonin helping build Torontos status as a tech hub, through both hispioneering deep learning research and co-founding of theVector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. It also cites the upcoming Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus as an example of how institutions like U of T are fueling Torontos tech boom.

The newspaperalso notes how the influx of tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoftand Meta to Torontois leading to a brain gain as global tech talent pours into the region, aided by Canadas liberal immigration policies.

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Solar farms are being refused planning permission in Great Britain at the highest rate in five years, analysis has found, with projects which would have cut 100m off annual electricity bills turned down in the past 18 months.

Planning permission for 23 solar farms was refused across England, Wales and Scotland between January 2021 and July 2022, which could have produced enough renewable energy to power an estimated 147,000 homes annually, according to analysis of government figures by the planning and development consultancy Turley.

The refusals have jumped significantly since the start of 2021 the research found only four projects were refused planning permission during 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 combined.

Of the 27 declined solar farms between 2019 and 2022, 19 are in Conservative constituencies. Four were in Labour constituencies, three in Scottish National party constituencies, and one in a Liberal Democrat constituency.

There are fears such refusals could increase further as the Tory leadership contenders, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, have made disparaging comments about solar farms.

South-west and eastern England had the highest number of refusals in the last 18 months, with four projects turned down in each region. Wales, the West Midlands and Scotland each had three refusals, while the east Midlands, north-east and south-east of England each had two planning applications turned down.

Analysts at the thinktank Green Alliance said the rejected projects were large solar farms at an average of about 30MW each, which may account for the planning refusals as it is easier to get smaller farms approved.

However, it added that this should not be a reason to refuse planning permission, as larger solar farms could cut bills further.

It said the refused solar farms could have cut about 100m off Great Britains electricity bills this year.

Dustin Benton, the policy director at Green Alliance, said: We should be building as much cheap, clean energy as we can to reduce peoples energy bills and cut our reliance on Russian gas. This additional solar power generation, if it displaced gas, would have saved over 100m per year in wholesale energy costs.

By integrating solar panels into fields, even farmers on high-grade land can continue to grow crops at the same time as enjoying the steady income from solar panels.

If Truss proceeds with her plans to crack down on solar farms she would be going against the governments energy security strategy published this spring.

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The strategy set out ambitions of generating 70GW of energy from solar technology by 2035. It also promises to consult on amending planning rules to strengthen policy in favour of development on non-protected land, as well as supporting solar that is co-located with other functions such as agriculture and established energy infrastructure.

Emma Kelly, an associate director at Turley, said: Solar should be a key contributor to the energy market, especially as we look to diversify our renewable energy products to ensure maintenance of supply.

The significant uplift in planning permission refusal for solar farms goes entirely against the proposals laid out in the governments British energy security strategy. Solar power currently contributes 14GW of energy at present, so we have some way to go before reaching the 70GW target. If Liz Truss goes ahead with her plan, the British energy security strategy will need to be rewritten.

Biodiversity is certainly a factor we need to consider with solar farms whilst the ongoing rise of the cost of energy has shown just how important renewable energy generation is for the future of the UK. A growing trend of refusing planning permission for renewable energy projects that are designed to support energy security is a huge step backwards on our road to net zero.

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The Land Cruiser is one of the most popular full-size SUVs in the world. And in certain markets,it has a waiting period of up to three years.

Toyota has opened bookings for the all-new Land Cruiser 300 in India. The car can be reserved for Rs 10 lakh, which will delivered in a period of just over a year. Now, for those who think that it's a long waiting period, well, think again, for the car has always been in high demand and has a waiting period of up to three years in certain markets.

Like the LC200, the new LC300 will also be sold as a completely built unit in India. It made its global debut in 2021. However, it was delayed due to the acute chip shortage, which hindered the functioning of the entire automotive industry.

Toyota Land Cruiser 300: Design

In terms of design, the LC300 looks like a true Land Cruiser there is a large grille with liberal use of chrome and redesigned headlamps with vents below them. In profile, the car retains its butch upright stance, with prominent squared wheel arches and a prominent kink on the window line. At the rear, it gets slimmer tail lamps and a fresh design for the tailgate and rear bumper. The car gets five colour options and three upholstery options beige, black, and red-black.

Toyota Land Cruiser 300: Mechanicals

The LC300 is based on Toyotas new GA-F platform, which is based on the TNGA, and retains the ladder-frame construction. Abroad, the car comes with two engine options a new 409hp 3.5-litre twin-turbo petrol V6 and a 305hp 3.3-litre diesel unit. Both come paired to a 10-speed automatic gearbox. The Indian iteration, meanwhile, will only get the diesel option at the moment.

In terms of off-road capabilities, the car gets the same 32-degree approach angle as the LC200. Depending on the variant, the departure angle can reach up to 26.5 degrees. The ground clearance is rated at 230mm, and the car gets 4X4 drive as standard. The new model gets a more advanced Multi-Terrain Monitor system with an underbody camera. The control system has been revised as well, which will help the car maintain its speed while driving off-road.

Toyota Land Cruiser 300: Bookings and Delivery

While the company has commenced bookings for the car, there is no word regarding the pricing yet. However, the company has confirmed a 3 year/1,00,000km warranty for it. In our market, the car will take on the likes of the 2022 Land Rover Range Rover.

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Nationals candidate for Shepparton Kim OKeeffe says unlocking land in regional Victoria needs to be a focus following the state election in November.

Regional Victoria is in the midst of a housing crisis, with long waiting lists for rentals and house prices rising.

Ms OKeeffe served four stints as City of Greater Shepparton Shepparton Mayor and said government could do more to help councils unlock land as regional communities grew and the housing crunch continued.

Support agencies such as BeyondHousing have said the current pace of housing cant keep up with demand, let alone alleviate the housing crisis, which is pushing people into couch-surfing and sleeping rough.

Part of the National Partys policy is making sure local government is supported to do that, Ms OKeeffe said.

We need to be unlocking more land because as Ive said, we're seeing such a growth in regional Victoria, we can't wait five to seven years to unlock land.

We need to be looking at options and need to make sure ministers understand our regions.

Liberal candidate for Shepparton Cheryl Hammer, who has worked with agencies supporting people at risk of homelessness, said there was no overnight solution for the housing crisis, but said government should do more.

For me with housing, it's rooms, rooms, rooms and rooms. It's not the Band-Aids. We need all levels of housing the crisis and transitional, and social housing, she said.

For me, councils part is to remove the bureaucracy and get some land opened up. Work with investors, incentivise bringing investors to the region when they want to build these beautiful big, sprawling, housing estates and have a percentage of them be one- or two-bedroom units.

We need land and we need the investment, and state government is going to have to play a pretty big role in that.

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