tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post3802313413721669154..comments2023-04-20T04:34:11.624+10:00Comments on CAIRNS HILLBILLY WATCH - DAILY LIFE IN CAIRNS, QLD EXPLAINED BY RATIONAL, THINKING PEOPLE: ANTI-CULTURAL PRECINCT CAMPAIGN BY MACKENZIE & HILLBILLIES SPECTACULAR FAILURE AT PUBLIC MEETINGUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-54971315092632918622011-04-16T19:50:18.065+10:002011-04-16T19:50:18.065+10:00Unfortunately KitchenSlut, Mackenzie is a true phi...Unfortunately KitchenSlut, Mackenzie is a true philistine with scant knowledge of the arts. He could not conduct any interview on arts.athenanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-52820804683302190702011-04-07T12:25:06.516+10:002011-04-07T12:25:06.516+10:00Interesting comment in todays Australian from Arth...Interesting comment in todays Australian from Arthur Sinodinos, formerly Chief of Staff and highly regarded political adviser to Entsch's hero, John Howard:<br /><br />"Governments should stop treating the arts as a luxury or entertainment and more as economic activities. Such industries are a magnet for talented people from across the world. They are integral to creating vibrant businesses and communities with global reach." <br /><br />Maybe rugnut should line him up for an interview?KitchenSluthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947481064967081891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-4815818437976041972011-03-29T17:03:42.871+10:002011-03-29T17:03:42.871+10:00It's sickening to see people like Entsch and C...It's sickening to see people like Entsch and Cochrane woo voters with promises of football stadiums, while dividing the community at the same time. Nonetheless it is a vote catcher, and these two don't give a stuff apart from getting their ample, porcine arses in a well paid seat. Neither of the two of them is going to be in their jobs for more than six years, so if they succeed in killing the Cultural Precinct and obtaining the 20,000 seat football stadium, they won't be around to see<br />the consequences. Not of course that they would give a stuff.<br />Oh...note how Mackenzie hasn't been ranting and raving away about how we haven't been consulted on this either.Bernie W.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-19710123030657611862011-03-28T22:34:13.507+10:002011-03-28T22:34:13.507+10:00Mackenzie played a pivotal role in the 1995/1996 c...Mackenzie played a pivotal role in the 1995/1996 campaign against relocating the Base Hospital. He stirred up the simple folks by railing and ranting about the State Government's closure of the Central State School and old Railway Station where the Government sold the land to private developers. Kackenzie then used this to argue that De Lacey the then Member for Cairns, only wanted to sell off the Hospital land on the Esplanade to a high rise developer, etc. Rugnut inflamed the simple souls of Cairns so that they all rose up like rampaging warthogs demanding the decrepit sick old hospital remain. De Lacey backed off and the $1.5 billion was allocated to Townsville. By 2000, the hospital was badly stretched and the State Government then embarked on its first round of expensive upgrades. By 2005, just under 10 years from the campaign against a brand new hospital, the community was bellowing for a new hospital and couldn't understand that the Government no longer had $1.5 billion to up and deliver it.<br />I have a feeling we are going through much the same motions now with the Cultural Precinct. Rugnut has stirred everyone up, and a new Government is most likely to withdraw the funding. Within a few years down the track, especially after Townsville gets their new theatre up and running, the screams will start here in Cairns. Mackenzie has a corrosive and damaging influence in the Cairns community.athenanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-48272705978765530932011-03-28T21:19:30.260+10:002011-03-28T21:19:30.260+10:00On the matter of the rectangular playing field, I ...On the matter of the rectangular playing field, I am totally against it. Every club with a rectangular field in the CRC area is struggling. At any game whether it be Rugby Union, Soccer or Rugby League you would be lucky to get enough people there to pay for the upkeep. I understand that the Council has recently had to bail out the Kangaroo FC and purchase the ground so the Pride have a home base. Of couse Cochrane would be thinking the rectangular stadium would be good for Soccer. Didn't the NQ Fury which she wanted to bring to Cairns fall over? So if the Rectangular Stadium gets built it will be expected that local Rugby League games would have to be played on it and of course that would send Ivanhoes, Suburbs and maybe Brothers Bankrupt because their fields will only be used for training and where will the money come from to pay for the upkeep of their fields?? Will the CRC(The Ratepayers) be once again expected to purchase them? Have Entsch, Manning and Cochrane taken this into consideration? If Cochrane has the guts to run for Mayor she will be campaigning for the Rectangular Field.Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03060680502252544774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-49924686009167239552011-03-28T21:03:54.404+10:002011-03-28T21:03:54.404+10:00Mackenzie was the hillbilly who lead the charge to...Mackenzie was the hillbilly who lead the charge to keep the Hospital on the Esplanade. He told everyone who wanted to listen to him the the salt air helped you get well!!! And look what happened Townsville got the new Hospital on a greenfield site. CharlieCharliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03060680502252544774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-49653917351058192272011-03-28T20:24:37.681+10:002011-03-28T20:24:37.681+10:00You're not wrong there Bus. Op. If a new Stat...You're not wrong there Bus. Op. If a new State Government demands the funding back, we won't see anything like that again for a very long time. We'll be left for years, likely decades with an inadequate convention centre, a too small, rapidly ageing, outdated community theatre , and of course no real museum!<br />As well as this, in the short term, Cairns will be left without a major building project to help alleviate the high unemployment.Bernie W.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-64236764232303502922011-03-28T09:55:55.485+10:002011-03-28T09:55:55.485+10:00I'm also inclined to say the Cultural Precinc...I'm also inclined to say the Cultural Precinct looks doomed. There is likely to be an election before the building commences, and with a change of Government, the funding will be quickly withdrawn. The hillbillys will cheer on, thinking, just like the hospital stoush in 1996, what a great "victory" they've had. <br />Townsville is more likely to get a bigger, modern theatre in the near future while Cairns will continue to maintain its increasing ageing, and inadequate theatre.S. Northynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-13443458816959923552011-03-27T23:38:31.531+10:002011-03-27T23:38:31.531+10:00Who will be the next Mayor??
When will Rugnut have...Who will be the next Mayor??<br />When will Rugnut have a heart attack??<br /><br />Run your own polls on these.<br /><br />BTW. I've witnessed Rugnut call a woman a "DOG" and that she should be "ON A LEASH" at the 2007 Amatuers, as did at least 8 others. The man is a fucking PIG !<br />The best way to end his ego trip is not to listen or even publish this blog...there are better things to do right??<br /><br />Kind regards,<br />CLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-22465560388861871312011-03-27T22:04:57.738+10:002011-03-27T22:04:57.738+10:00A change of Government will put the kibosh on any ...A change of Government will put the kibosh on any Cultural Precinct for years, maybe decades to come.<br />The $40 million funding from the State Government will be re-directed to the cheers of the half-wits and baboons of Cairns to the endless pit of "rebuilding Brisbane". Oh, I'm sure a bit of political sophistry will be used, a pledge that it will "go towards the new hospital" or some such lying bullshit. <br />We won't get funding for cultural facilities like that again for a long, long time.Bus. Op,noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-17949047036309545952011-03-27T08:25:46.087+10:002011-03-27T08:25:46.087+10:00I guess we all have to admit that the delaying and...I guess we all have to admit that the delaying and stalling tactics to commencing the building of the Cultural Precinct has worked. We now have a looming State Election with every expectation that Newman will shit it in, if what happened in NSW translates into Queensland.<br />With a change of Government, goodbye Cultural Precinct and here comes the 20,000 rectangular football/entertainment stadium.<br />Oh...Entsch and Freebody will urge the Newman State Government to sack the Mayor I dare say and Byrne will come romping back.<br />Yeah Alison what you said is probably true. We haven't seen anything like so called soccer hooliganism in this city yet. It's all ahead of us.Bernie W.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-2000985316954548622011-03-26T12:58:55.108+10:002011-03-26T12:58:55.108+10:00The concerns of callers were legitimate concerns a...The concerns of callers were legitimate concerns and I shared them.<br /><br />However, when raised with Planners, Engineers and the Port Authority, those concerns were answered and addressed one by one. <br /><br />These ‘issues’, were either shown to be based on incorrect assumptions or were able to be addressed through the design process.<br /><br />I agree, lets kick it along, get title transferred and at least have the site ’cleared and filled’ by the next election.<br /><br />Warm Regards,<br />Cr. Rob Pyne.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-13379273105083254142011-03-26T11:25:38.043+10:002011-03-26T11:25:38.043+10:00It amuses me that the same hillbillies demanding m...It amuses me that the same hillbillies demanding more consultation are the very same whining about the cost of the project to ratepayers! <br /><br />Do we just continue to waste money consulting the community until it gets the answer they want?<br /><br />Why aren't they complaining about the couple of hundred thousand being wasted on a feasibility study for an unneeded footy stadium? <br /><br />RugNazi keeps telling us that local tradies 'are down on their knees' but doesn't want to give them jobs building something.h. boschnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-26061762374638073482011-03-26T09:18:16.468+10:002011-03-26T09:18:16.468+10:00Mackenzie and King are playing the simple folk of ...Mackenzie and King are playing the simple folk of Cairns like a pack of muppets. It's simple enough to turn the footie lovin people against the culture buffs. I'm betting we do end up with what you have suggested, Alison. All out bloody brawls in the CBD involving hundreds, if not thousands of alcohol and testos fuelled young blokes, all charged up to have a bloody good stoush with the US marines or blackfellas or opposing team supporters, fighting it out along the CBD streets. If the bloody stirry Police Union decide to pull their members out of Cairns, if a couple of cops are killed, we'll be rooted. The tourist industry will be KO'd. By this Mackenzie will be retired, so too will Entsch and King will also have pissed off<br />somewhere, leaving the simple hillbillys of Cairns to try and deal with the mess.<br />Yeah, the poor bloody Japanese took years to get the piss drunk US marines out of Okinawa, you reckon we're going to find it easy? Bloody hell.Tommonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-81032048550759552572011-03-26T07:40:06.631+10:002011-03-26T07:40:06.631+10:00Peering into the future, my greatest fear is that ...Peering into the future, my greatest fear is that the Cultural Centre is abandoned and Cairns embarks on "sporting" tourism with firstly establishing the 20,000 rectangular football stadium close to the CBD. Having hundreds if not a few thousand easily exciteable young males pouring into the CBD after a game is a scarey enough thought. However adding those males to hundreds of US Guam marines on R & R in the CBD, and we have a potential disaster. (The US marines were kicked out of Okinawa by the Japanese after years of brutalities levied at the Japanese people.)<br />Commonsense should dictate that if we follow this path, we will be playing with dynamite.Alison Allowaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-67815861783225265092011-03-25T11:27:32.789+10:002011-03-25T11:27:32.789+10:00Marg Cochrane was brought in to Macca's show t...Marg Cochrane was brought in to Macca's show this AM in an attempt to "spin" the meeting last night.<br /><br />It was noted again that Council, in 2008, reviewed all the possible sites and Council (including Cochrane) approved the selected site on the waterfront.<br /><br />It was also noted that management from Cairns Ports declined to attend the meeting. Probably sick of pointing at their master plan, approved by BOB MANNING years ago, that shows this site as surplus to port operations - something some of these blockheads refuse to accept.Jim M from Edge Hillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-81695687926282336632011-03-25T10:13:34.858+10:002011-03-25T10:13:34.858+10:00I was at the meeting last night. You're descr...I was at the meeting last night. You're description of the meeting is very correct.<br /><br />The biggest presentation was from Brett Moller, who concentrated on the 'business case' and the 'consultation", both of which he was critical of. And on both issues he's categorically WRONG.<br /><br />As for the business case, several points can be made. Firstly, the process needs a location, design, and construction estimates before one could hope to provide a complete business case. But since this isn't a BUSINESS but in fact a public works project, I'm not troubled about the minimal business case provided. I'm quite sure there was no such business case for the Sydney Harbour bridge, or the Opera House. Sometimes government has to do and spend what's necessary to achieve the goals. And in this case, spending say $60 million on a "new" Civic Theatre wouldn't get the job done. A new, cheap, poorly designed Civic Theatre still couldn't hold world-class events, would be of minimal use to visiting conventioneers, and ultimately would be an expensive white elephant. The Mayor is correct at stretching this GROWING community as far as can be practicable. She's thinking for the future.<br /><br />And where's the business case for every fucking sport stadium built in this country? There isn't one, because the hillbillies expect their sport stadiums and drunken sport louts and local teams to be ensconced in luxury. Warren Entsch is pushing for a "rectangular" stadium as a way to spend public money, with no business case for that, either. <br /><br />And as for consultation, this project has been consulted to the public for years, ever since first proposed by Kevin Byrne. The Byrne proposal didn't get up primarily because it was too limited and conservative. <br /><br />No more consultation with the 300 hillbilly thugs in this community and let's just build the damn thing. $300 million is fine with me, and the ratepayers I all know.CBD Warriornoreply@blogger.com