Chief Minister says there's plenty of cash for redundant botanic gardens

Stuff Westfield …. (and stuff Transfield for that matter ).

If tourists want pretty gardens they either:
A) Drive around Canberra looking at our browning grass and occasional nice flowers, or
B) Visit the gardens near Telstrayama.

I would not enter a garden that wanted $20 from me…to the same extent, when I was in Sydney for a day on my way through to Brisbane, I thought I would visit the top of centrepoint tower…westfield own it and wanted an arm and a leg…I didn’t go up…and next time I’m in sydney I’ll visit the top of some other building.

Samuel

ahh but seepi

if you want to grow your market you need to be interested in the customers you don’t already get.

REsearch has shown that it is the cultural attractions (War Memorial, National Gallery, Questacon) that attract the tourists we do get. Especially the ones who drive them selves from 2-7 hours away.
I don’t think people looking for excitement would come to Canberra when Sydney is a 3 hour drive away…..
the trick is to have more on offer than just the gallery etc, so that when people do come, they actually see more than they expected, and stay longer.
I think we should promote the restaurants too. Canberra hs heaps of good restaurants.

I keep trying to tell people that what travellers want is alcohol and excitement.

But ACT Tourism keeps trying to push a brand of “cultural tourism” which I suspect has more to do with getting themselves free lunches in “cultural” places.

Stanhope knows best? God forbid that the Government try and implement something that will actually attract real tourists that spend money. What does Canberra offer at the moment to attract all the singles out there that are cashed up looking to spend money – nothing!

Is it crazy to suggest that Canberra is a hole?

Ha, ha …. I’m sure ASIO have ‘bigger fish to fry’ Samuel. And yes, the Chief Minister is overseas at the moment ( at ACT Ratepayers expense no doubt ).

HOW DARE HE TALK ABOUT SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY ON SOME SORT OF CRUMMY ‘GARDEN’ WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WAITING UP TO A YEAR OR MORE JUST TO HAVE BASIC DENTAL WORK DONE !!

hehe, I thought I saw him today and was about to give him an earful when I realised that he is overseas and the person I saw wasn’t him.

I wonder if ASIO are tracking me after my comments regarding certain actions that could be taken against Stanhope…I have certainly recorded an increase in ACT Government IP Addresses visiting my blog.

I’ll join your cheers CUH
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Samuel

I’m sick of my hard earned taxes being paid for bullshit things like the freaking ‘arboretum’. What a fucking waste of money.

You always hear me on the radio CUH, I guess I should keep an ear out for you…and yes, three Floriades is absurd

Samuel