Jerrabomberra Wetlands a disgrace

I see Jon Stanhope did a photo op for today's Canberra Times in the bird hide at the Jerrabomberra Wetlands.

The story was about how Jon was inspired by his recent trip to the UK where he saw a wetlands area that was funded through developer contributions from nearby sites. Well there's a revelation that he didn't need to go all the way to the UK for. This is standard practice in local governments around Australia. The Maroochy Council that I was part of used this method to fund $millions worth of streetscape redevelopment for Mooloolaba Esplanade and beachfront, and the main streets of Maroochydore alongside Maroochy River. And that was a decade ago...

He also thinks this model could work for Mulligans Flat, but alas Forde is already sold so a bit late to be trying to levy anything on that development.

But let's let inspiration come from wherever it may and irrespective of how belatedly.

I just hope that while Jon was at the Jerra wetlands he observed all the nice fluffy bunnies hopping all around the bird hide and has ordered TaMS (HIS department) to finally do something about them.

It's hard to accept this government being capable of taking on "big things" when it struggles to do a reasonable job of the basics.