Your views: on an ice cream brand revival and more
Today, readers comment on a defunct SA label’s resurrection, police CBD powers and the uni merger’s secret business case.
Commenting on the story: Lost SA ice cream brand reborn
I know how Freesia ice cream was made. My father was a close friend with Peter Smyth, the family helped us when we moved to Murray Bridge and he explained the process to dad.
They used butter not cream, which was too expensive. The butter was forced through a perforated metal plate to break it up so that it would emulsify with the mix in the churn as if it were cream. It had a distinct flavour unlike anything else and was a pale golden colour. When Amscol took over the old ice cream changed to, well, Amscol. – Richard Schaumloffel
Commenting on the story: Extra police powers zone grows four times in size
The police minister was reported by InDaily on 12 July as saying the new declared public precinct announcement was “not about pushing the problem away, but about ensuring we have appropriate support services and agencies in place to identify and manage issues of safety …”
On the contrary, minister. Your announcement on 10 July about a special area now to be set aside in the west park lands as a place to which persons ordered by SAPOL to leave the precinct ought to go makes it clear that the plan is all about ‘pushing the problem away’ to an isolated park lands place.
South Australians would like to obtain precise details about this park lands arrangement, but when the Human Services Minister’s people appeared at a secret session at Adelaide City Council on 6 July to get permission to use Edwards Park in Park 23, all details became subject to a council confidentiality order. The specifics are now secret and will stay that way. There are myriad questions outstanding. Given that it will cost taxpayers almost $500,000 to set up and run (NewsCorp 11 July), it’s doubtful that it’s a short-term plan.
Back in the city, there are also questions to answer about SAPOL’s plan to expand this city precinct and expand it to daylight hours Mondays to Thursdays. New police powers claimed by InDaily as “search any person for weapons, carry out drug detection, [and] order people ‘posing a risk to public safety’ to leave the area” appear to link with the Malinauskas government’s recent changes responding to protests in city streets.
Such police freedoms are wide open to abuse, as has been shown globally where police exercise such rights. I doubt that this plan will expire on 9 October. The premier is leaving a disturbing Adelaide street protest and park lands legal legacy. – John Bridgland
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Commenting on the opinion piece: On Peter Malinauskas’ university thought experiment
It is clearly absurd for the business case for the university merger, made by un-named consultants, to be kept from the public on the claim of “commercial” grounds.
Who could possibly benefit commercially from this document other than other Australian universities who are considering merging? There aren’t any! There are apparently other reasons why the document is not being released in full, and failing to release it in full merely inflames suspicions about its contents. – Timothy Miles
