The decision by the city’s administrators to find $1.6 million to help restructure our town hall is to be highly commended.
No city worth its salt can operate without a town hall; a meeting place for music and the arts and for the people in general.
Maybe this is the breakthrough we have been looking for after years of the former city councillors and their senior officers of grandstanding with new schemes to not only reform the town hall area, but other city features such as the mall and West Crown Street.
All of which makes me wonder how much it cost the ratepayers in plan after plan to be presented regarding these grandiose ideas?
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Here we go again, Wollongong once more the poor cousin when it comes to Labor government hand-outs.
While we read that the Newcastle Knights playing arena up north will get a bootful of money to help revitalise its home base, down this way the financial help cannot get as high as $100 000 for badly needed works at WIN Stadium.
We are represented in the current State Government by Lylea McMahon, Noreen Hay, the Minister for the Illawarra and Police David Campbell and Paul McLeay on the tip of our northern boundary, and yet the fact the party is so well represented here doesn’t seem to help.
Maybe that’s the problem!!!!
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Glancing through The Sydney Magazine’s 32 page travel guide this week and Wollongong and the surrounding regions failed to appear with any sort of advertisement or write up.
Billed as a feature on “Australian luxury holidays” the insert covered a wide range of destinations around our nation, but we didn’t rate a mention.
Maybe I’ve been wrong in the past to question those amazing visitor numbers our tourism chiefs keep producing, and we actually don’t have any space for new visitors?
Or maybe “luxury” doesn’t quite fit around here!!!
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On the subject of travel I was talking with Mark Horsley of the Leisure Coast Limousine Service and he tells me the company is experiencing a very busy period, mainly in taking people from around here to the Sydney airport.
Mark wasn’t able to put a finger on where the bulk of their destinations were, but the travel bug has a firm grip on many of our locals.
All of which just adds further confusion to the current debate on how people are meeting the so - called challenging economic times.
One last fling, perhaps!
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