Corrupt Australia presents an alternative to the politically correct channels of debate to reveal and scrutinize the skewed structure/design of modern Australian society. We also seek to encourage autonomous Australian culture which is free from the standardizing and overly materialistic clutches of globalisation and which encourages citizens to go further than simply contributing to a quantity over quality mindset and the banal and unsustainable conditions under which we may increase our love for and attainment of material mass.

"Booming" population of Melbourne is congesting roads


VicRoads, the force behind Melbourne's LA-style freeway growth has urged motorists to use other means to get around as congestion on the city's roads grows due to population growth. Research undertaken by the organisation showed that the city's freeway and tollway systems are getting worse and that drivers are being forced to crawl at less than 40 km/h along many of our major roads. "A minor crash, someone pulled up on the side of the road or any roadworks can play havoc" RACV chief engineer Peter Daly said. According to VicRoads spokesman Mr Freemantle, Melbourne's booming population is the problem.

The population in and around the outer suburbs of Melbourne is growing. Centres of housing are popping up and sprawling out all over the map with little placement and planning. Development is not being restricted to key 'activity centres', i.e., the larger towns that are services by trains. Thus, no wonder we need LA style freeway growth: inhabitants of quarter acre blocks of land sprawled accross the map in such a de-centralised and fragmented mannor are forced to drive to get both to the shops, because they don't live near any, and also to work, because they don't live near stations. Our present leaders need at least to plan for our increasing numbers of people properly if they are going to champion their econonomic idea of population growth.


Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side -
There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound?
Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

- Henry Lawson

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