TO: ANTHONY ALBANESE.
Federal ALP Minister for Infrastructure, & the "Federal 20-20 Conference".
Mon 7th April, '08.
Mitsubishi + a Green auto industry?
Including these in The Apology?
"Green-auto" is an oxymoron, 1stly.
Auto's cost heaps in combo with alcohol, in medical & personal terms.
Autos are a severe bain in exstressing the Mutha our Planet Earth also.
Healing the Aborigine post-carnage-trauma, is nought if its not Wholistic.
Thus, Integral in Post Apology Action is the Call for an Unconditional Dedication to Remediate, to Heal the wounded Aborigine People &, concurrently, the wounded Land.
Thus, to make Opportunity from the adverse, ask the staff & management of S.A.s Mitsubishi auto plant, if they would like to be the nation's 1st industry to Turn an, in reality 'stale' auto industry's plant, into the hub of a rail network in production of the "bogeys-and-billets" for a nationwide web, an interlinking series of regional, Light-Rail Networks?
This needs of course, a parallel Federal Rail Expansion Enterprize (F.R.E.E.!) All-Government Commitment, Principly toward Honouring The Apology, by designing our productivitous nature into Dancing Elegantly with the Aborigines Light-Footprint Love of the Land, Their Ageless Ceremony.
Why not, tram-car links between remote Communities & regional towns, etc?
I know a large lot of Australian Aborigine Mothers, Grand-Mothers & Aunties would more happily slide over their Country "...with half th' bloody Mob Mayte", between Communities & town(s) in the smooth, SAFE, Cool & Communal Comfort of a Modern, very Green Melbourne-type Tram, than humbly suffering the discomfort, dishonour & danger of the longish car rides.
This, not to say YOU gotta go by tram!
Cars are a male subculture, & serve a lot to divide-up the Family, (though in many ways bring us together).
The Ideal Aborigine-designed family car would be a twenty-seater!
And if we gave them all the facts, they'd have it on rails in no time!
"Way-to-GO - BRO!"
Perhaps the above words are a tad frivolous, ne'erth'less, regional networks of light rail track has got to be up the ladder of government agenda (BIG infrastructure projects!) priorities in 2008 &-on?
To this, on this, I appeal, to both the People & to the Democratic Government of Australia.
As the northern rivers or the "Rainbow Region" of north-eastern New South Wales is vindicated by western science's reports on "How to survive the hypermaterialist western, 1st world's rape & murder of the Planet!", & thus Merits Recognition in tangible ways, for the Cultural Warrior REGION's now world-reknown Pro-Planet, Light-Footprint Sub-Culture, Environmental Stance, then it must be a given, that the Bunjalung Traditional Custodians of this Precious Country, & the Newmobs who live on the Barricades of the above vindicated, "Nimbin" Alternative Culture, tender local, State & Federal government for the Nation's first local region light-rail tramway?
A web, is the Ideal aim, along & off popular routes.
Nimbin, being the Known Centre of the Aussie Counta-Culcha, might do itself Right to lobby its local Councils on a light-rail track.
Were the councils of Tweed, (Murwillumbah), Byron, Lismore & even Kyogle to recognise the Merit of such Infrastructure advances, the 1st stage being a track, to Nimbin, but from which larger population centre - Lismore, Byron Bay or Murwillumbah/Tweed, the Councils may well be "knocking-on-the-Museum-door" to win the 1st lightrail track route & VERY lucrative contract?
Surely a rail wending up from Byron to Nimbin would do right in a few ways:
Most appropriate way to freight-in Byron-based trippers, reduce the pollution of tourorrist buses & cars, give Nimbin/Byron Locals an efficient, pro-enviro, Ideologically Sound, stress-free & sensorially Heavenly way to get together.
In the larger web plan, all mentioned cities & towns would one day be linked by, into the N.R.L.R Web, but the rail must serve the Locals, from the beginning, so they may be further enabled to Live the Light Footprint Path.
This would likely have Lismore the winner, but Murwillumbah/Tweed may have a chance, both as the 1st track, but as a logical forward step in having the "backbone" track running between Tweed, Murwillumbah, Uki, Nimbin, et al to Lismore.
Or indeed, on from Lismore to Byron? Etcetera-etcetera-clakety-clak!
But getting back to the S.A., auto-plant; The call goes to ALL governments to envisage their own regional networks, & how they might link into neighbour-councils' & interstate tracks. The now-closed Mitsubishi plant is, in terms of future population distribution needs & possible practicalities, located well to minimize trucking of the hardware off to wherever in Australia, as the web of webs grow.
To minimize energy expense, it makes sense to begin laying track from the central (Mitsubishi plant) site, out to the relavent regions.
However, economics & demographics suggest otherwise.
While the most deserving Aborigine maybe of South & Central Australia, as well as being nearest the centre of production, logistics would call that the first track be laid where it can be most used, thus bring the or a best possible financial return.
But being a perpetual, longterm government project, those concerns may not demand initial priority.
This is why the high-traffic, high tourism region of the N.S.W. Northern Rivers has been considered.
These ideas can be applied everywhere. Today we know we must plan environmentally, thus it becomes the Role of Government & the People to Advocate & Embrace such Social & Cultural Efficiencies.
Yours,
Max Earth.
Outlaw for Global Land & Drug Law Reform.
Uluruba,
Earth.
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