Ol' Wivenhoe To Receive Makeover
By Elnino Isobar and Gerry Mander
Queensland's favourite Premier impersonator Peter Beattie unveiled an ambitious plan to reinvent Wivenhoe Dam and assured South East Queensland that the drought will not break them.
Mr Beattie announced plans to have the entire dam site redeveloped into a world-leading mini-city similar to that being built near Springfield, once the dam finally runs out of water.
"Look, we are just trying to turn a negative into a positve", Mr Beattie said. "We have seen how well Springfield's development boosted the economically both locally and for Queensland, and it would be silly to have that land just sitting there, when people are doing it touch in the drought."
Mr Beattie announced the $80b project, contracted to development multinational Multiplex, will include housing for 250,000 residents, designated parklands and recreational sites, a 200-strong shopping centre and a new local MP office - for the seat of Wivenhoe Heights, as part of Labor's propsed electoral realignment.
However, Mr Beattie scoffed at suggestions developers dictate the terms in Queensland and slammed comments that they ignoring the threat of the new city being on a floodplain.
"That is absurd. I have every faith in Multiplex to build the city with affordable living with efficiency and accountability." Mr Beattie said. "I know. After they proposed the deal to me, I went home and they had added an extra storey to my house."
"As for those who believe the area is a floodplain, I ask them when was the last time there was a flood. Yes, once upon a time it held an enormous amount of water. But it seems those days are coming to an end. We really have to move away from such negative thinking and concentrate on looking forward. Dams don't flood anyway. Rivers do."
The plan has come in for harsh criticism. Shadow Minister for Irrelevance, the Coalition (yes, all of them), said Labor has simply lost the plot.
"Sounds nice. I want to live there. Do they have talking ducks?" they said. Harshly, you hope.Originally named "Wife and Hoe", after local farmwife Sylvia Sorghum who protested with a hoe over water deprivation in the bush, the dam was officially opened in the early 1970s.
However, Bjelke-Petersen's misinterpretation of the word "opening" led to the disastrous and tragic flooding of Brisbane in January 1974.
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Elnino Isobar and Gerry Mander are the only people who actually have read the last few posts, the last of which was long time ago. Thanks fellas.
Queensland's favourite Premier impersonator Peter Beattie unveiled an ambitious plan to reinvent Wivenhoe Dam and assured South East Queensland that the drought will not break them.
Mr Beattie announced plans to have the entire dam site redeveloped into a world-leading mini-city similar to that being built near Springfield, once the dam finally runs out of water.
"Look, we are just trying to turn a negative into a positve", Mr Beattie said. "We have seen how well Springfield's development boosted the economically both locally and for Queensland, and it would be silly to have that land just sitting there, when people are doing it touch in the drought."
Mr Beattie announced the $80b project, contracted to development multinational Multiplex, will include housing for 250,000 residents, designated parklands and recreational sites, a 200-strong shopping centre and a new local MP office - for the seat of Wivenhoe Heights, as part of Labor's propsed electoral realignment.
However, Mr Beattie scoffed at suggestions developers dictate the terms in Queensland and slammed comments that they ignoring the threat of the new city being on a floodplain.
"That is absurd. I have every faith in Multiplex to build the city with affordable living with efficiency and accountability." Mr Beattie said. "I know. After they proposed the deal to me, I went home and they had added an extra storey to my house."
"As for those who believe the area is a floodplain, I ask them when was the last time there was a flood. Yes, once upon a time it held an enormous amount of water. But it seems those days are coming to an end. We really have to move away from such negative thinking and concentrate on looking forward. Dams don't flood anyway. Rivers do."
The plan has come in for harsh criticism. Shadow Minister for Irrelevance, the Coalition (yes, all of them), said Labor has simply lost the plot.
"Sounds nice. I want to live there. Do they have talking ducks?" they said. Harshly, you hope.Originally named "Wife and Hoe", after local farmwife Sylvia Sorghum who protested with a hoe over water deprivation in the bush, the dam was officially opened in the early 1970s.
However, Bjelke-Petersen's misinterpretation of the word "opening" led to the disastrous and tragic flooding of Brisbane in January 1974.
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Elnino Isobar and Gerry Mander are the only people who actually have read the last few posts, the last of which was long time ago. Thanks fellas.
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