I have just been fortunate enough to travel japan and spend time in Tokyo. If you want to see a CBD that copes with 9 million people daily residing and commuting it is a real eye opener and a credit to their infrastructure and "town planning" . Quite right - those concerned citizens who t...

both sides of politics are screwing this up. turn it on and leave it on. Yes, who thinks we have too much H2O? Better have expensive water than not enough. Just imagine the situation if there was a seven year drought and we didn't have that plant ready. Nobody likes to pay insurance premiums but I ...

i can't work out the article, who actually owns it? What's there to work out? Sounds pretty straightforward to me: "The City Council last year sold the property to developer Datong on the condition ..." (Who they might sell it to once/if finished is another matter.) All I can add is: Than...

not being age-ist, just observing that most/all(?) folk in that photo appear 60+ years of age. Scared of change? wanting more cash spent on hospitals instead? too much free time? or perhaps full of wisdom? Again i believe an influencing factor here is most folk not realizing the world is a competit...

here we are hoping for a 40 storey building to be approved,and i see melbourne a getting a new tallest building 108 storeys. :( Well Melbourne's population is 3 times ours, so they should be looking at 120 stories ..... The difference is; Melbourne is getting new hi-rises every year. I don't think ...

monotonehell wrote:

[Shuz] wrote:Apple are the biggest iCons in the world.

Plus they plagiarised from the Beatles.

So The Beatles invented apples?

They must prefer more of this:

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Great shot! (doesn't mean I want to live next to wherever it's from).

Reb-L you have seen the state of the existing 'exotic' trees in Victoria Square? A lot of these trees are close to dead and hardly worth saving. They are a victim of Adelaide's extreme weather (months of hot dry weather aren't appropriate for many 'exotic' trees) and I bet the soil contamination th...

SRW wrote:That's monstrous.

Agreed - might as well fill in the whole Torrens and have a parking lot there. Concrete should be limited to roadways as much as possible. Just look at the wasteland behind parliament house to see how popular it is.

Yes, cut down all existing 'exotic' shade trees to plant some politically correct gums. It just shows immaturity. We should also tell Mexicans to put cactuses (OK, cactii) in the central plaza in their capital, the Greeks to rip up whatever is in Syntagma Square to make way for an olive plantation a...

That comment was actually meant for Vic Square - but it doesn't matter anyway.

Yes, cut down all existing 'exotic' shade trees to plant some politically correct gums. It just shows immaturity. We should also tell Mexicans to put cactuses (OK, cactii) in the central plaza in their capital, the Greeks to rip up whatever is in Syntagma Square to make way for an olive plantation a...

Yes, I think that used to be the Earl of Zetland (unless I had one too many).

Now that looks good! Max impact for min $$'s. Unfortunately it might not look so impressive a couple of months down the track due to wear and fading. Maybe we should use brightly colored pavers (that don't fade easlily) each time footpaths, malls etc. are ripped up instead of putting back something ...

A couple of things: 1) The Fed Govt paid for most of it - don't think this road would've gone ahead at all otherwise 2) It might be higher than necessary at the moment - but isn't it possible that ODX or some other projects might need easy access to Pt Adelaide in the future? 3) I don't understand t...