The Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) says the listing of koalas as a threatened species in Queensland will create unnecessary delays for developers.Actually, the real threatened species is common sense. Obvious and old agendas being rolled out and paraded as "green tape" undermine the genuine arguments about reducing the friction in our economy - a problem that involves sophisticated life-cycle assessment and a long-term approach. Otherwise, it is just amateur stuff pushing all of the normal disputes of any democracy down the pipeline for someone else to deal with...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
It's green scissors not tape
This is getting crazy: