City Hill Devastation is a fait accompli?

How late at night?

C’mon Mael, government funding will be a complicated thing inscrutable and opaque to simple analysis.

In exchange for a car-park here and there and preferential treatment elsewhere they could even get it built for free.

Of course the lost utility of the hill (which gives me a warm fuzzy to look at when I drive past it even if I haven’t been up there in years) is something the public, as opposed to the government will have to bear.

Can you imagine if a private housholder wanted to knock down all those old trees on their own property??

Smackbang I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is and inform us of the percentage of total spending on the project that will be allocated toward building a new Assembly building.

My guess is it’ll be around the 50%+ mark…

But that’s just me being sceptical.

I think the point is that there is general agreement that Civic needs a revamp. For some reason, all the plans for this have come to focus on City Hill – partly, I think, because part of the problem is the Parkes Way / Commonwealth Ave motorway area there that just cuts off the city from the lake. I don’t care what happens to City Hill, but I do think that the plans to revitalise Civic are a good idea and one whose time has come.

The plan for a new Assembly building is only one small aspect of a larger proposal to redevelop much of this area. But if it gives you an outlet for your negativity, then by all means focus on that one aspect rather than on the overall plans.

Well the dirty knees are a good sign you want to be looking for a fresh one.

…or maybe they’re blokes?

I don’t mind the drunkeness & the white tracksuit pants but the dirty knees worry me…

hmm plenty of office space vacant arround civic, MLA’s and personal assistant only in the building and you’d have tonnes of room at a snip of the price surely?

C’est la vie. I’d like an extra room in my place, but it’s not going to happen for a while.

I think it’s because the current place it to small. It barely fits the 17 members now, and if they expand to 21 or 25 as they are looking to it’ll be way to small.