Big numbers signalling a big job to be done

Updated October 11 2017 - 3:56pm, first published 3:21pm

The numbers are large, almost intimidating. The claim Ballarat’s population could reach 200,000 by 2040 may seem alarming when it only nudged the 100,000 mark in the last few years but patterns of growth if steady, can implement extraordinary change. If nothing else such numbers should be not be the gloomy augeries of vanishing charm but rather the harbinger of what must be done to keep what we love.   

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