Benefits for Townsville

By: NickStanton (Registered ) on 24-10-2007 10:51

Hosting a v8 supercars event in townsville will bring many benefits to the city and to the region. 
1) The economic benefits directly from the event will be significant, people will travel from Cairns, Charters Towers, and many other places to attend. While here they will patronise local businesses, stay at hotels, eat in resteraunts etc etc. 
2) The event will bring Townsville international attention, it will be a showcase of the region, and a brilliant form of advertising. 
3) It will allow fans of this popular sport who have previously been unable to make the expensive trip to the nearest events in South East QLD and Darwin, to finally experience what they love. 
Anne, I think it is very petty of you to attack a local member for working very hard to secure something for his region which eill be so beneficial, simply because you don't like the sport. The V8 supercar competition is working in co-operation with "Future Climate Australia" to completely offset their emmissions. As a part of this they will be planting 15,000 trees in Australia and New Zealand in 2007 alone. The V8 supercars advocate a carbon trading message to fans, work with schools to promote climate change messages and donate carbon calculators to the schools, donate money to green initiatives, and run on an ethanol-blend fuel. At the end of the day the planet will be better off than if the competition didn't exist. Peter Lindsay is responsibly fighting to ensure townsville gets what is good for townsville, and i think rather than being a clone of the ALP, seemingly incapable of independant thought (from my correspondance with him) like George Colbran, Lindsay is the member for Herbert first, and a party politician second.

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Out of touch....

By: NickStanton (Registered ) on 25-10-2007 08:06

Gee I've Heard George say that before. Actually i believe on one occasion it was about the Prime Minister...Yeah that's right, when he tipped Manly to beat the cowboys and Melbourne the grand final. Obviously the PM has no idea what's going on...  
I'm Curious Joel, how can you be an objective citizen journalist when you work for a candidate's campaign?

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