Weekly news update here. carnarvonchamber.org.au/News Also included in news is a keynote speech by Andrew Murray the chair of the WA Regional Development Trust. This speech was delivered to the Esperance CCI. Andrew opens by stating It is the immediate future that gets our attention, but it is the distant future that holds our destiny. uture-gazing three or four decades ahead is a tricky uncertain business. And yet we have to invest on that basis; every big thing we do - building a road, a school, a suburb or a port – has decades of future productive use in mind. Whilst Andrew is talking to an Esperance centric audience his thoughts and key facts have relevance to Carnarvon and the Gascoyne; The single most important estimate to get in your minds is that by 2030, in just 17 years, there are expected to be over 3 billion people in the middle-income bracket in our Asia Pacific region. What characterises the middle class is demand – such as for more protein, for refined foods, for wine, for tourism, urbanisation, and a massive new appetite for consumer goods and health and education services. Our collective job in WA is to get the biggest piece of that 3 billion middle-class market we can. This is a competition for people and investment, between regional centres, regions, states, and countries. Your Carnarvon Chamber recognises the need to position ourselves for these challenges and is pushing such agendas as a common sense discussion on our future airport needs, housing and business growth in all industry sectors including horticulture.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:43:29 +0000