Archive for January 2017

Gladys in NSW

With the new Gladys in NSW promising to address housing affordability (and lead?), great article today by Jessica Irvine on 11 policy ideas. These are a big brainstorm with Canberra and the other States to come up with some fully executable and agreed solutions.

This all as Sydney is now the second most expensive city in the world with a median house price $1.1m. So much wealth and so many solutions!

So congrats Gladys on the top job – now to create what could become a fabulous legacy from creating real and innovative change – with fairness and justice thrown in for good measure.

Check Your Pool

If the article by Kelly Burke Daily Telegraph is the tip of the iceberg, the number of tragedies in outdoor pools continues this Summer despite all the warnings and information available. Some Councils like Blacktown, Sydney have five officers and inspected 18,000 pools last year, nearby Liverpool only 160 pools. How many with faults? Up to 98%, so check for faulty gates and locks and any methods toddlers can use to satisfy curiosity but with so often severe consequences.

Which Country Will Prosper ?

Interesting prospect: China halts construction of 85 coal fired power plants and continues to commit to renewables and address climate change. Trump? Backs out of climate change? Supports coal? Guess which country will prosper with all the innovation and new business around renewables and addressing climate change? Come on Australia- we have a great role to play in Ecopreneurship.

Not a Good Idea – Privatising Key Data in NSW

Struggling to see benefits of privatising land titles – we all still have little trust and major doubts about big and meta data, the new gold of the world. So NSW Government and any others considering privatising is not a good idea yet. UK stopped it, so we will need overwhelming good arguments to support such privatisation.