It’s 4.36pm Saturday and really only a few hours from my last post. It’s fairly quiet, but I can see the swimming pool is getting busy and one end is occupied by a group of young guys who have opened a carton of Bundaberg rum cans into the pool and are now swimming around picking them off one at a time. If they’re your kids I hope they can swim drunk!
I’ve just been reading all the schoolies articles in the Gold Coast Bulletin. The Bulletin probably won’t publish my link in their comments section, but I’m happy to publish theirs if it will help end this nightmare. ( go here>> http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2009/11/28/163591_gold-coast-schoolies.html)
The page 3 article (P-plate drinks…) seems to indicate a new low in the depths to which the profiteers will stoop to make a buck. Our laws are mandated by the people and for a reason. Why would we consider suspending them so a few thousand hooligans can line a few more pockets before getting back to their tragic behavior.
Page 9 of today’s Bulletin carries a story about somebody’s daughters attacking journalists aided by somebody elses’ sons. Page 14 and 15 reveal the stench that hangs over Surfers. Long after the foul smells have been washed away, this stench is going to hang over our heads. We don’t have mines, or major agribusiness, or ship building or a silicon valley, or a burgeoning port infrastructure. No… we have tourism. Or what’s left of it since the State Government screwed up the IndyCar festival and continues to allow this ‘schoolies’ festival.
So leave a comment here, or go to the Gold Coast Bulletin page and let’s really ignite the debate!
