I have come to intensely dislike Victorian Premier John Brumby – he is as bad in his own way as the former Premier Jeff Kennett. He is obsessed with economic and population growth, no matter how unliveable this will make the state become in the future. It is already becoming unbearable. His latest gaffe is to say Melbourne will become a “backwater” like Adelaide (the South Australian capital has a smaller population) if the channel deepening project doesn’t go ahead (a project that many see as unneccessary and devastating to the marine environment here, myself included). Well, if it meant a smaller population I would be happy for Melbourne to be a backwater. Even moving to Adelaide looks appealing (Melbourne’s population boom is making life here increasingly stressful), though they were having water shortages last summer and the weather also gets over 40°C in summer.
