So I read this piece yesterday and I'd be very interested in people's thoughts. It's hugely long so I won't paste it here, but I think it's a dialog that Sydney has to have properly.
Would the last person in Sydney please turn the lights out?
Ruled by a succession of incompetent governments, everything in Sydney is now illegal- including fun.
In 1999, Sydney was at its peak- the Olympic games were imminent and there was unbridled optimism that Sydney was about to emerge as an international city as the millennium approached. Internationally, Sydney was renowned as an incredibly fun place to live; the entertainment was world class, with great restaurants and venues to visit at any time of night.
Something pernicious has happened in the fifteen years since, and Sydney has not just regressed into a ghost town, but there is an undercurrent of something much more sinister in the way the city is being run.
As I write this in 2016, not a day goes by without the press reporting of yet another bar, club, hotel, restaurant or venue closing.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/would-last-person-sydney-please-turn-lights-out-matt-barrie
And I thought this is a worthwhile counterpoint to Sydney's approach:
http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2016/01/night-mayor-amsterdam-mirik-milan/433893/
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the place is a hole.
The scum of ethnic Australia lives there.
The scum of the sporting world lives there too.
I spit on you.
scum isnt exclusive to melbourne, the whole world has scum spread across the face of it.
I'm young enough to have just missed the decimation of this cities nightlife, but I do have a number of friends who work in the industry and I do find it hugely unfair that the actions of a few fools have affected the lives and culture of our youth.
This link is also quite interesting and a little informative.
We have a current affairs group for this stuff. Take it there fellas.
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Just waiting on Super to close this down.
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