Business – booming and busting

Well, things have gone downhill in terms of business variety and viability. Hopefully, the low point has been reached, and the NT will turn with the economy and business going up, up, and up. Being prepared and going into business with a wide vision and likely cost analysis awareness over time certainly helps.

City of Darwin Council priorities

My concern is that to find out about pending projects, online exploration is necessary – there is rarely any opportunity for awareness provided in sprint media or on television.  In overall terms, it sends to me that the Council overly focusses on the CBD with insufficient attention paid to the suburbs – particularly the older residential areas.

What would we do without NIMBY’s

What would we do without NIMBY’s

NIMBY’s here

And NIMBY’s there

These NIMBY’s 

They are everywhere.

Talk loudly here,

Hold protests there,

All anti-progress

Makes for despair.

‘Round the NT 

They circulate,

Look for projects

They can hate.

Building up

No bring it down.

‘Till in mediocrity,

We all drown.cc

They succeed 

While we despair

They retreat 

To their castles in the air.

Council Elections this year

We have Local Government Council elections due this year. That will be a time we can show our appreciation of our Council priorities.

Airnorth, Cairns and Alice Springs

This is wonderful news for Alice Springs residents and business providers. My fervent hope is this route becomes permanent. One also hopes that people will not be discouraged from visiting the Red Centre because of the threat of antisocial behaviour. Alice Springs must reflect itself as harmonious and peaceful if the place is to become permanently attractive to visitors.

The Environmental Defenders Office should be wound up!

Funding for this organisation  – given the history of what has happened in connivance terms – should be ceased forthwith. Having the group classified as a charity is nonsense

Legitimacy of Welcome to Country 

Given that the ceremony was instigated as a joke, confirms it has no legitimate background – but has stripped countless tens of thousands of dollars from complying organizations and people over the ensuing years.

Airlines and the NT

It’s on again, on again, off again ad nauseum when it comes to seat capacities on planes expanding and contracting, flight routes starting and stopping  … and so on! One gets dizzy at what seems to be an almost constant chopping and changing of routes and seating capacities.

Predicting weather

One never ever knows what is going bto traspire on the wearther front from one day to the next. It seems that weather pattern expectations and trends were more accurately predictable in past decades, but that understanding has certainly become more erratic since the turn of the century. 

Avoid misadventure in Kakadu

Great – but be careful lest there is inadvertent trespass onto some sacred place, and make sure you do not become inquisitive about places and objects that are off limits. Preservation of traditional sanctities must be paramount.

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