- Chicken Parmigiana
- Sep 12, 2007
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Well! If this is the thanks I get, next time I'll vote No with a non-progressive attitude! Hmph!!
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- Chicken Parmigiana
- Sep 12, 2007
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Well in honour of the new thread here’s a few on the shortlist for ya:
Garden Island
Literally some of the most prime real estate in the world, so kick the navy out and create an arts & culture precinct and super-yacht mooring facility.
Waste
State takes the whole thing over. No more relying on business and councils to work out a cost-positive way of doing it right. Build a big gently caress-off MRF/ recycling / organics processing facility at Eastern Creek (between the drag way and the M7). Capture all commercial and residential food waste.
Eliminate disposable packaging at dine-in fast food.
X sports centre
Competition-grade skate park, big air, etc. Just next to the Wanderers football park seems like a good location.
Leppington Cargo
Already discussed, but bears repeating - move the freight depot south a few miles and extend the train line a few hundred meters and we can take a shitload of trucks off the road.
(move big red circle to little red circle)
Sydney Games
Kind of like a modern corroboree. Centennial park is a massively underused resource, so for one weekend a year, have a massive tournament. Most of the major sports. Split the city up into 32 regions to make the table easy, have primary / secondary / open divisions. And while we're at it, an Australian Games at Homebush as well.
Somewhat related, one major difference I noticed between Sydney and Melbourne, is sport. Most sports fields in Sydney are empty. Seriously. But the few nights I've spent riding around Melbourne, they're packed, with people playing relatively high grades.
Schools
Lunch provided. I am so loving sick of all the kids' nutrition relying on millions of parents having to do it individually.
Kitchen Garden in every campus, competition for best produce
More partnerships with retirement homes
Make Science Fairs more of a Thing
Aquatic Recreation
Harbour baths. Few of these things scattered around the bays would be alright:
And for those not by the harbour, an olympic-sized natural public pool at Prospect. But you can only get there by active transport. And speaking of prospect, whack in a zipline from the lookout down towards the filtration plant.
And a communal outdoor fireplace in each suburb.
Pretty entertaining 48 minutes
Unlike your posts
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- Chicken Parmigiana
- Sep 12, 2007
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If you ask Charlie about the heathen Turk or the dreaded Hun, he will gently remind you that those terms were propaganda of the time, and that most soldiers understood that the enemy soldiers were just ordinary good boys like them and felt a shared humanity, etc. etc.
If you ask him about anything queer-related, he'll think for a long while before spitting out the exact same non-committal boilerplate every time. I had a bit of luck asking him specifically about cross-dressing though, and whew, Charlie, just... just relax, mate.
It's also fun getting him to talk about soldiers "resorting to violence" against the enemy.
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