Letters to the Editor on historic olive grove
This week, InDaily readers respond to the SA Voice annual address, the park lands battle and an SA brewer buying thousands of new kegs.
Responding to MotoGP plan to move historic olive grove
Leave the grove where it has been for nearly two centuries and relocate the MotoGP. – Mark Bourchier
Our old olive groves in the park lands are some of the quiet gems of Adelaide that make the city so appealing. They are peaceful, shady, aesthetic, historic, CO2-absorbing, oxygen-producing, and free to access for everyone. Take a walk through them and admire their 150-year-old serpentine limbs and the gnarled, sculptural roots. By contrast, the MotoGP event and track is noisy, polluting, fossil fuel-guzzling, CO2-producing, hot tarmac, and you have to buy a ticket to enter. So, I ask you, which one of these options is true to the spirit of the park lands and which one betrays it? – Michael Ladd
Why did you not conclude with Opposition Infrastructure Minister Sam Telfer’s words that the public works committee would not give money based on the responses he heard from his excellent probing during this hearing? This movement of olive trees is a bribe for us, who are against using this site for MotoGP, to think all is okay. It is not. The fight continues. – Sandy Wagner
Responding to SA brewer buying thousands of new kegs
I suspect that Coopers’ continuing increased sales are related to two facts. One is that it is entirely Australian-owned. The other is that they produce a quality product with real taste, unlike the generic beers marketed under existing brand names that the big two brewers have closed down (e.g. Boags, West End). It is a great product for those looking for something in between the “cheaper” large brewers and the more expensive boutique brewers … and it is SA Great. – Eric Granger
Responding to Serving taste of home in Adelaide’s Faino after fleeing war
It is important to hear stories like this one. With everything going on around us and all the negative headlines, it is great to see kindness is still happening for these people in need. They sound like wonderful people, and I will definitely be visiting their restaurant. – Julie Reynolds
Responding to Setting the record straight: Conservation SA on MotoGP in Park Lands
According to the Premier, the Conservation Council agrees that the MotoGP plus the associated package of environmental works equals a “nature positive” outcome. If that is so, the ecological accounting that proves it should be made public. If that is not so, the Conservation Council should make it clear. There is so much riding on this question of “nature positivity”, yet so little detail on how it was calculated. – Ben Taylor
Responding to ‘Over it’: SA Voice leader takes aim at critics in annual address
Perhaps SA Voice might be taken more seriously if they had made a comment about MotoGP. One hundred and fourteen hectares of park lands, more than 70 Adelaide oval playing surfaces, are being provided to a foreign media company, complete with asphalt and 400 trees permanently removed for a three-day motorcycle race each year. Expropriating park lands would seem to be hardly consistent with First Nations’ heritage. – Richards Jacobs
It would be interesting to see a list of proposals the State Voice has put forward to the government for consideration and what has actually resulted from those. This would demonstrate how seriously the state government is taking the Voice’s proposals.
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It would also be interesting to see exactly what legislation has been referred to the Voice and what, if any, changes were requested by the Voice. What then happened to the legislation? Were amendments made, or did it proceed as originally proposed?
If First Nations peoples were not permitted to vote in the Voice election, was it due to their status with the Electoral Commission not reflecting their Aboriginal status?
I believe it would be helpful if there were more transparency on what is going on within the Voice and in its interaction with the government. And the press should include the full address to Parliament in its pages for all of us to see. – Graham Tench
Responding to Aussie stars sign up for Adelaide park lands fight
I am deeply offended at this move to try to emotionally blackmail the majority of South Australians who are perfectly fine with the long overdue upgrade to our park lands golf course and hub of motorsport.
These celebrities should be ashamed to be the mouthpiece of very few who do not understand the balance needed between heritage and planning for our future. There are always losses, but in this instance, many gains.
The positive results of these works will be very much appreciated by the next generations of South Australian users and, of course, visitors. – Kathryn Fuller
The Premier of South Australia should concentrate on fixing our crowded hospitals and the shortage of beds for old people and young people instead of playing with motor cars and motor bikes, destroying the lungs of this beautiful Adelaide City. – Juan Bazan
This is brilliant news of well-known folks doing their part to make us ordinary folk aware and hopefully sweep us up to do everything in our power and ability to fight against this stupid, crazy idea.
How many more motorbike riders have to die on almost a daily basis here in Adelaide before something preventative is implemented?
A strong government with strict road rules and harsh penalties that are enforced seem to be the only alternative. Sadly, there are simply too many idiots on our streets and education and TV ads just do not work.
From a ‘forced EX-rider’ of a 1600 tour and 1200cc adventure bikes. – Jacobus De Wet
It will be interesting to see how the Premier will rate or categorise this latest cohort of outliers.
Activists and minorities may not apply.
Perhaps their voice will just be ignored along with all the others that have a different view.
Also, at a time when the SA health system is in such a perilous state, could the $96 million proposed on the racetrack be better spent elsewhere? A much smaller amount for a basketball stadium proposal by a previous government was savagely ridiculed after all. – Tony Simmons
Both the destructive golf course and the equally destructive bike racing track projects involve the creation of two of the worst environmentally unfriendly and polluting exercises this present government is embarking on near the CBD and adjacent to a well-utilised public recreation spot.
Both involve the wanton destruction of many mature trees and the deaths of many birds and animals who live in these areas, and lifestyle disruption to the local inhabitants.
Even worse – there already exist, not all that far away, other golf courses and motor racing tracks and, ironically, the reason – LIV – behind the new golf course no longer applies, as it has failed and is being folded up.
Given that SA is probably the driest Australian state and chronically water-short, creating a user of huge amounts of water is difficult to comprehend and stupid, to say the least. Golf courses take up large areas of good land, require huge amounts of water for irrigation, and use huge amounts of mostly artificial fertiliser, pesticides and fungicides, which will enter adjoining waterways, causing pollution and possible algal and other rampant growth infestations downstream.
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Bike racing creates a noise pollution problem as well as toxic fumes and pollution from road and tyre dust and exhaust gases.
This is all for the ego and gratification of one person, the Australian version of Trump, it seems.
We animals, including homo sapiens, rely on a clean environment to be able to survive and continue our existence. It is our life support system, believe it or not. To wantonly destroy it is madness. – Gil Thorncraft
Well, I am very pleased to hear of this. You may or may not be aware that John Schumann, one of our Australian music icons, has been actively opposing the proposed MotoGP through the park lands (despite being a motorcyclist and MotoGP fan himself) for literally months now, with only minimal media attention.
Let’s get everyone on the same page. – Carey Goodall KC
Responding to Stop stealing our pint glasses: SA pub makes quirky video warning
What ever happened to our standard beer glasses?
The pint glass is 15 fluid ounces (425 millilitres), a schooner is 10 fluid ounces (285 millilitres), a butcher is seven fluid ounces (200 millilitres), and finally, the pony is four fluid ounces (115 millilitres).
Our pint, that is not a pint, has been rorted, and publicans are using supermarket standard glasses under the name.
Where is the department of weights and measures?
Headmaster-branded pint glasses are proper, and beer brand promotion glasses are understandable.
Bring back the SA’s heritage with properly verified marked glasses.
We should expect as much for the price pubs charge. – James Redwood
Responding to Setting the record straight: Conservation SA on MotoGP in Park Lands
This state needs to move forward into the future; the MotoGP track and golf course, along with future opportunities, need to move forward and be grasped with both hands if we are to maintain forward momentum and maintain credibility in the future for investment into this great state. – Phillip Scales
The only “nature positive” step is not to destroy nature in the first place. Saplings do not replace towering eucalypts. – Chris Hunter
Responding to Hobby beekeeping society in court over ‘oppressive conduct’ allegations
What is with InDaily‘s obsession with Freemasonry? Would you consider it newsworthy to mention if they were Rotarians?
I thought the days of Freemasonry conspiracies had passed; next we will be reading about the Illuminati! – Lachlan Miller
Responding to O-Bahn gridlock fears as MotoGP petition hits parliament
I am extremely concerned that this event will cause the city to come to a grinding halt and be completely gridlocked. Given that many of the buses will have to be diverted to North Terrace, this is going to be an absolute nightmare trying to get into the city. Given that Rundle Road is also going to be closed, all of the traffic from The Parade, Kensington and Magill Roads will be funnelled onto an already congested North Terrace, with traffic from Payneham Road also feeding into it. It will be an absolute disaster for any parent trying to get their children to school in those areas. And God help you if you need an emergency service.
I have lived in Norwood for 33 years and have put up with road closures for as long as they have been around, but this is taking it to another level. My husband and daughter work in the city and have already decided that they will have to work from home. They are fortunate that they can; what about those who cannot?
Aside from the damage that it is going to do to the park lands, I really do not think people are aware of how disastrous and dangerously disruptive this is going to be. Has Mayor Whittaker gotten any further with this? We need to make more noise and wake the public up to what is at stake, and it is not just trees. – Emma Robinson
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