Our new group narrowed down the options for our political opportunity/issue; national education or mass housing. The purpose behind national education was that because of the nature of Australia's spread out population, it is difficult to keep everyone on the same level of knowledge. This is combined with a lack of political education (and other area's of knowledge based on current events) that the younger/general populace is missing. If the public is more educated on critical topics, such as environmental science, illegal immigration, energy production and so on, then they will be able to make better choices.
The mass housing idea stemmed from a need to bring culture to our capital city. We discussed how Canberra lacked culture because of the lack of people. All of it's culture is “built” culture, structure that were made to mimic the culture of other areas but are themselves are empty. A place's culture is created by it's populace. So to improve the population of Canberra, we had to make it a viable place to live. A high speed rail line will connect Canberra to both Sydney and Melbourne so people who work in these cites who want to live in a less urbanised city can chose to live in the capital. This means the Canberra will require a mass housing solution. This railway might also cause smaller towns to emerge along it's length, with a slower train to serve them, requiring more houses.
We came to the conclusion that we preferred to work on the mass housing idea. This was based on the strength of the idea and the ability to add mobility to this idea.
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