Week 3 Task

The week 3 task required us to come up with a short narrative in relation to the specific topic and parliament. This was a somewhat confusing task, as most of the people we talked to, linked parliament in just because they had to, and it had no real reason for being in the story. (e.g. problem: the aging population is growing more segregated and isolated --> solution: creating more community areas for the aging population to go and meet other people and re-associate with the community --> link to parliament: to create these areas we would need the go ahead with parliament.

Since we were not really content with a similar type of story, we assumed that parliament includes all forms of government and government services.  The story my group and I derived also has a few variations as I will describe.
Problem: Because of the urban sprawl of Australian capital cities, the growing population has been push further and further out, making it difficult for many residents to come into contact with many general government services either due to lack of transport infrastructure or general distance of services.

Solution: Have the government buy up small parcels of land 1000-3000m2 in communities with poor infrastructure or a great distance away from services. Services can then set up temporary services depots on the blocks of land for different days of the week. (e.g. using like a transformable camper-van office, similar to the blood bank bus) This will provide residents with essential government services.

Future outlook: Other services such as medical specialists or building services etc can rent out these blocks for a few days producing financial return to the government while also allowing businesses to test new area markets and expand their growth potential.

Overall this is what we ended up with for our week 3 task