Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn’t get it up, but I still think there’s merit in that.
Meaning of the quote
The quote suggests that the idea of Australia as a unified nation, with its major cities and regional areas, did not succeed or come to fruition. However, the speaker still believes that the concept had merit or value, even though it ultimately failed to be realized.
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The point of our demographics is that we’re not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we’re not going to have the population.
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Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn’t get it up, but I still think there’s merit in that.
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I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.
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As our cities have developed, they’ve built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we’ve taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.
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