growing pains

further to my recent question about the benefits of our national growth I see the that SMH reports that NSW may be forcing the market to move faster on making more room for people by forcibly acquiring private lands for resale:

THE state government is rushing to prepare laws to create a development authority with sweeping powers to compulsorily acquire and rezone privately owned land for resale to developers

looks like tough love from our Nanny who loves to protect us with laws. Its strange how I don't feel so protected. Well, anymore than my Aunt's sheep on their property feel protected by her.

Sadly I think that the machinery of Government is still following its colonial origins while the reality is we have not been a colony for a century.

Still, if the machine is not actually reprogrammed, it will keep following the sane program.

Its nice that you can't even keep your own land to yourself even if you resist the offerings of developers, to hold on to your bit of eden, they'll just take it from you it seems.

Ask the Aboriginals about it, we may be next (if we were ever regarded differently).