Growth will cost us dearly:
Growth will cost us dearly is an article written about the Melbourne growth statistics that were released in March. Margrit Alm, who is from Eltham, has written it to the Herald Sun. It is a letter to the editor, and a strong opinion piece. The author wants to evoke feeling in the targeted audience, who are all of an age to remember Melbourne in the 1960s and before a great rise in economic and population growth. The author is clearly against the growth of population, and the tone of the article reflects this with rhetorical questioning paired with subtle and slight fear mongering. Alm lives in a suburb of Melbourne, so therefore she has a bias towards how the city is changing.
The headline persuades the targeted