It is no secret that here at North Coast Voices some of the bloggers haven't much time for relentless self-promoter Bernard Salt's demographic pontificating. In the past we looked at his pronouncements in The weird world of Bernard Salt and Bernard Salt says Angourie is dead: Angourie villagers and visitors fall about laughing.
However it took Ben Eltham over at Larvatus Prodeo to finally take a blunt scalpel to this pop demographer in a post titled Bernard Salt: pop demographer.
Apparently Bernard's last foray into urban growth areas was more than poor Ben could take and he decided that a demographer's mounted head would look good hanging over the fireplace.
Eltham has issued this invitation over at LP:
Salt's final two paragraphs barely deserve discussion. Attacking that venerable straw man, the "urban elites", plays well with Murdoch journalists eager to file some supporting "expert opinion" in their copy, but this particular assertion is completely unsupported by any data. And as for "this satellite existence" being the "new Australia", the last time I checked, outer-suburban housing development has been going on in Australia for at least a century.
Got any more fallacies and outrageous generalisations from Bernard Salt? Post them here, and we'll attempt to exert at least some scrutiny of Australia's most-quoted and least accurate "demographer."
Photpgraph from www.bernardsalt.com.au
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