Michael Costa: Deep green elitists in charge | The Australian

NSW premier Bob Carr, it should be remembered, was obsessed with stifling the growth of Sydney. On many occasions he made the extraordinary, demonstrably false claim that the Sydney basin was full and could not sustain additional population growth. Many have blamed Carr and his population growth phobia for the lack of land release in the Sydney basin over many years, and the consequent high price of new housing in Sydney. Housing pressures in Australia, unlike in the US, are largely the result of an undersupply of housing stock. The growth of the "sustainability industry" is closely correlated with the emergence of green politics, particularly the anthropomorphic global warming religion of which Carr is attempting to become Australia's high priest.
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Michael Costa is a former treasurer of NSW.