Letters to the Editor on a fatal traffic blackspot and Michelin
This week, InDaily readers have their say on SA restaurants joining the coveted Michelin Guide and the History Trust selling off a multimillion-dollar prized car.
Responding to ‘Long bow to draw?’: Premier quizzed on fatal traffic blackspot
Well said, Mike, regarding your article on the black spot at Virginia.
Adelaide’s road network seems to be very ‘rough around the edges’ in the peri-urban areas, and clearly Mali is getting his priorities wrong and thus providing political fodder for the red peril of One Nation and others on the extreme right. – Lee Morgan
Responding to History Trust sells off rare multimillion-dollar sports car
Regarding the Bugatti sale, one has to ask the question – if the car was a bequest to the museum, then the owner presumably expected that the museum would be its forever home for public viewing? Interested to know if the original bequest forbade its commercial sale by the History Trust. – Gregory Starkey
The Bugatti is one of the greatest pieces of hyper junk anybody could possibly buy. They are total BS motor cars.
Good riddance. – James Scammell
Responding to Legal ‘gaps’ exposed in park lands judgment
The Possum Park (Kemp Attrill) decision may be respected. Judicial appellate processes can decide the legal correctness of the decision’s opinion that “the statutory test is [applied to] the Listed Place as a whole” (i.e., Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout).
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Compare that with the Commonwealth’s Guideline: “It is sufficient if an action is likely to have a significant impact on a part, element, or feature of a National Heritage place”. There is logic in that. The Adelaide Park Lands is a heritage place comprised of parts: land surveyed and pegged as parcels of land, corridors and town acres. “Park Lands” is a collective label for parcels (parts) of park land.
Perhaps politics will prevent the federal minister from having the courage to defend their guideline as reflecting the noble objectives of the EPBC Act. But what is the point of guidelines if they don’t actually guide?
If heritage, culture and environment are left to be diminished by politics, then public concern will be left like the ball on the tee to be struck out of the fairway.
Meanwhile, “ragtag extremists” can ponder when the number of trees chopped, the extent of habitat diminished, or the roar of an exhausting motor racing bitumen track will cause a “Listed Place as a whole” to be significantly impacted? No one knows.
The public is left to lament with the Lorax that “unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not”. – Elbert Brooks
Responding to Polling reveals SA fed seat One Nation tipped to win
One Nation is right of centre … not far right. – John Corbin
Responding to Govt seeks MotoGP economic benefit report, months after securing event
This is actually crazy. Where are the government’s economic benefits “reports” on the V8s for the past six years? It is nonsensical to suggest cutting off access and amenity to the primary zone of commerce – the district whose core principle is to drive the state’s economy unless it is economically beneficial. And when someone points this out, all the government has to do is say “you’re opposed to it, so your assessment is unreliable”?
The Premier’s political success is intrinsically linked with “bringing the race back”, and the government pays economic guns-for-hire to dream up a number that gets echoed by copy-and-paste media outlets. He simply cannot afford to have anyone look at how these purported benefits are manufactured.
Let the public see the reports and have independent economic analyses conducted before spending even more public money on propaganda fodder. – Nick Patrick
Responding to Who will make SA’s prestigious Michelin Guide?
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Tourism Minister Emily Bourke crows that South Australia becomes the first place in Australia to be recognised by the Michelin Guide.
That’s because SA has the only government paying the money for Michelin inspectors to visit our restaurants. Other state governments chose not to cough up $5 million, $10 million – or was it more?
No wonder SA taxpayers, facing a chokehold of $50 billion in state debt, have indigestion. – Richard Peake
Responding to Execution TV: Is this a turning point for Trump’s America?
Absolutely disgusting. This is a real low point for Trump and his administration and shows how the American people are becoming mindless puppets! – Pam French
Responding to Multimillion-dollar transformation brings Vic Square hotel into new era
All the hyperbole, but the hotel remains the same size as it was when it was the Hilton – so how does this add to the hospitality scene?
Still no on-site parking, so it is useless for anyone driving to Adelaide from interstate. How a hotel such as this was originally built without on-site parking is beyond me. – Graham Tench
Responding to City of Adelaide lays out MotoGP grievances to Feds
The state government has a mandate to grow the state economy on behalf of the people of South Australia.
The city council would do well to look at this through a statewide lens rather than taking such a parochial view on behalf of the outspoken minority. – Andrew Hudson
This whole situation just feels like the government is bullying ordinary people who have legitimate concerns. A project that dismisses historic master planning and encroaches on public space should not be rushed. The lack of upfront consultation sets a terrible precedent and is the reason for the controversy. They only have themselves to blame. – Briony (surname withheld)
My main concern with the proposal is that the Premier, on the one hand, says that people are in their rights to oppose the racetrack but at the same time considers them nothing but activists.
It sort of makes these people seem like those that glue themselves to North Terrace in peak hour, which is simply not the case. – Tony Simmons
Please stop this waste of money. He did not even give the public a chance to object. Our city is designed to have park lands surrounding it. Leave it alone. Some of us actually care. – Heather Hughes
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