As a nation, we are overdue in recognising the role regional areas can, and must, play in overcoming Australia’s national challenges. Australia’s concentration of population is the highest in the OECD, and is almost double the OECD average A staggering 88% of our population is packed into just 3% of the landmass, mainly small coastal recesses in Sydney and Newcastle, Melbourne, Brisbane and south coast, Adelaide and Perth.
sceptical of internationalism, for example negative towards international cooperation, in favour of national sovereignty and unilaterialism