Crank The Croc
IT’s surely a big fat cop-out from Mayor Rosanna Natoli – who has been in office since March – to blame the former council for scrapping the 2025 New Year’s fireworks.
Geez, just own the fact that you want to be in bed by 9pm like the rest of us.
But no in the spirit of a youth crime crisis the council has drawn the law and order card to save us from a night of crime and carnage – what were they expecting – The Purge? The Cronulla riots in Caloundra? Walkers at 10 paces folks.
It’s dangerous out there in the scary dark. Anyway, GC&M News first raised the issue a few weeks ago and it became a national embarassment on TV last Thursday.
The council is desperate to attract high end hotels by lifting minimum building heights and at the same time trying to rejuvenate the coast’s nightlife. You would think that might start by encouraging people to be out at night. Just a thought.
In fact the best way to encourage activity at night is to lower the average age of residents – probably by about 20 years so good luck with that – and introduce daylight savings.
This is the same council that slammed the previous administration for scrapping the Australia Day Awards. There were all sorts of promises about bringing it back, but alas, it’s filed away in the too hard basket.
Let’s hope they sharpen up the message by the 2032 Olympics when the world won’t be just watching, it’ll be right here.