Hit the nail on the head. Decades of underinvestment in critical infrastructure has left the whole system vulnerable to even small influxes. Driving down the e

Hit the nail on the head. Decades of underinvestment in critical infrastructure has left the whole system vulnerable to even small influxes. Driving down the eastern seaboard of Australia one is struck by the hundreds of kilometres of perfectly habitable empty space. You could put two or three Hong Kongs on the coast between Sydney and Melbourne and no-one would even notice. We just need the damn infrastructure! Given its land mass, Australia at 25m is a joke. We can support ten times that. That "uninhabitable desert" is no worse than Arizona really. All that's needed is a little bit of long-term thinking and investment. Anyone familiar with my comments knows I'm no fan of "high-functioning autocracies" like China or Singapore but bloody hell - it would be good to get them in charge for just a few years and build stuff.