“Never stand between a developer and a bag of money; you’ll be killed every time.”
Those were the prophetic, if now obvious, words of former prime minister and perennial architecture and town planning critic Paul Keating in one of his more memorable sprays. It was made in a speech to the commercial real estate association CoreNet in 2014 when he slammed the “junk” build quality and aesthetics of strata apartment builds popping up all over Sydney.
“We’re going to end up with a very ugly city,” Keating complained.
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