Good day to you one and all...hello Dominican Republic, China, France, and the USofA...and a great day for Adelaide and therefore the world...(not sick of saying that yet?-Ed)...clearly not...I am of course referring to the official opening of the Adelaide Oval Redevelopment with the Adelaide vs Port Adelaide AFL match held there on Saturday 29th March 2014...(yay-Ed).
Rather than bang on relentlessly about this yet again, I will refer to the many previous posts about what this stadium has cost SA...remember that this was a Labor knee-jerk pre-election promise made in early 2010 that has been financed by the disastrous and highly corrupted South East Forestry Sale...it's ludicrously unsupportable to state that the Sale money went into the bucket of public funds and that the same bucket then provided the $600m for the stadium but it wasn't the same money...(bollocks-Ed)...
(That bucket was empty, they dumped the Sale cash into it, then pulled out the cash for the stadium...no confusion there-Ed)...absolutely...so you'll excuse me if I don't join the throng in vacuous celebration and instead peg critique at the bloody monstrosity...(pity, you look good in a throng-Ed)...saucy...
I'm sure there was oodles of song and lashings of dance and everybody
said 'how fabulous...except when the setting sun cast long shadows
across the ground', and 'what an economic boon for Adelaide'...and bully
for them because I doubt I'll ever step foot in that ludicrous,
unnecessary and entirely unedifying edifice...paid for with the Forestry
Estate sale...and again all due respect but that's just not open to
debate...forget what the entirely moral-less deceivers in the Weatherill
Labor government have to say.
One shall quote oneself thanks very much - we sold a lung to pay for a facelift...that bloody oval is a shocking indictment not a shining addition...the many claims about how great this Oval will be for Adelaide's economy do not account at all for the cost of building the bloody thing...it has to make at least $100million per year to recover the income lost through the Forestry Sale before it actually makes anything even resembling a profit...
A Pinch Of Acid In their Punch: is what I reckon Mt Gambier City Council must have had before deciding to spend nearly $600,000 of ratepayers money on an artificial pond and creek as part of their Rail Lands lunacy...(it's only not their money, they don't give a rats arse-Ed)...indeed, but they think it's their money and that's how they behave...
And what really concerns me is the apparent absence of the Old Station in the reportage about what is and isn't being done on that site...I thought the whole thing was an April Fools joke but it was still there in The Border Watch at 12:01hrs...more tomorrow...
Artfully Dodging Being Nice: as much as arty types can really annoy me, I reckon that the Old Rail Station would be a perfect gallery for local artists with all the tourists coming through there because of the bus Terminus but oh wait that's right the bloody bus terminus is out at the Lady Nelson and the bloody...(ah folks, he's going to go off a Rail Lands Retail Agenda Rant, I know the signs...go make a cuppa' or somethin' and I'll yell when he's nearly done-Ed).......................
(............YO.........and we'rrrrrre back-Ed)...and the bloody enclosed pool we'll never have, but I've covered it all in previous posts...where'd you get that cup of tea?...anyhoos, I am aware that some vaguely talented persons are looking for a permanent studio space and I feel that a renovated Station/Terminal/Studio/Gallery could be perfect...tomorrow...
Some Gnashing Of Teeth: but no whaling at all for Japan after the International Court of Justice upheld Australia's case that the alleged 'Scientific Whaling' Japan has been doing in Antarctica was inappropriate and have therefore ruled it 'out of bounds'...(yay for the Justice League-Ed)...no, not the Justice League, they're comic characters...(so are the ICJ...those guys are a riot...you should see IJC President Peter Tomka do karaoke-Ed)...I know, his 'I Will Survive' is hilarious...(hey, do they have an International Food Court?...I could murder a nachos...and some fried rice-Ed)...yeah, I'll have some cold rolls thanks...
Good Reef: is what the residents are saying down Normanville way...as if things couldn't get worse, company Oceanlinx has been placed into administration with their allegedly Pt MacDonnell bound Wave Generator still stuck in shallow water just off Carrickalinga Beach (approx 100kms South of Adelaide)...(well who the hell's gonna clean that up then?-Ed)...no idea...
Hardly Shocking News: that the Australian Energy Regulator has approved the $110million Electricity Interconnector to be built by Electranet at Heywood, Victoria, some 80kms from Mt Gambier...this project is to be paid for by $110m of taxpayer funded 'grants' from the Victorian and South Australian state governments...it is due to be completed by July 2016, when it will be used to trade energy between Victoria and SA...it will have a transfer capacity of some 650mw.
And the usual shizzle about how this transfer will reduce future energy costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, etc...(all noble causes no doubt-Ed)...no doubt...by allowing the exchange of 'cheap' electricity backward and forward across the border...but the reality of what this transfer process achieves falls far short of the promotion...there is never any discussion about the massive losses still inherent in sending electricity over distance, or the realities of peak demand on windless high temperature days when there is no Wind Turbine output, etc.
I have covered this at length in previous posts...generate power close to where it is used and stop this transfer nonsense...companies factor these losses into their wholesale price...when the wind stops, Adelaide will need the power from Victoria that Vic itself needs, which will be at premium prices, which then drags in the Playford Power Station at Pt Augusta, etc...and Wind Turbines all over SA to get the Eastern states their feel-good 20% Renewable Energy, etc...
An Ebola Outbreak: in West Africa has spread from Guinea into neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia with a handful of cases reported...the original outbreak apparently 'died-out' after killing 80 people because nearly all of those exposed had died, including all the hospital staff who were infected whilst treating patients and then died...it is a bitter irony without humour that the epicentre of this outbreak was the local hospital.
Ebola has a 90%+ fatality rate and is rightly feared across Africa, leading to Senegal officially closing it's border...there was a long article about this outbreak on the ABC/BBC World Service recently, and the harsh truth that there is no confirmed source or pattern of transmission for the 4 Ebola 'strains', but it's thought to be from bats and/or primates consumed as bush meat...it's nearly as frightening as the 2 laboratories who artificially developed the Human-to-Human Transmission Bird Flu but didn't have proper bio-hazard security measures...(super-Ed)...
Take A Downer: and send him to be High Commissioner in London, replacing our main man former SA Premier Mike Rann, who is getting shunted to Italy...in the fine tradition of moving irretrievably dodgy politicians to diplomatic positions on the other side of the planet...I wouldn't be surprised if this sudden move for former Liberal Foreign Minister Alexander Downer was prompted by the East Timor spying scandal and/or other like Downerisms...
(I'm very confused because AD was just recently made President of the SA Liberal Party, and then I heard Treasurer Joe Hockey say that he was sending AD around the country to help out-Ed)...are you sure...(yeah, Joe said "we will provide a tool for the states"-Ed)...ah yes, I can see how you might make that mistake, but that was actually in reference to the 15% Infrastructure Co-Funding commitment that the Liberals offered the states for selling their public infrastructure...that 15c per $1 was the tool for states to fund their own infrastructure.
Tomorrow: Fully Sick On The Rail Lands
Again...and I ain't apologisin' for none of if, none of it ya' hear me...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
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