"In the winter of 1990, I sat in Department of Planning offices with
high-level planning execs, arguing Homebush was the wrong spot.
As far as possible, I said, we should locate our Games in the city.
Darling Harbour, overgirdled and underoccupied, already needed help. So
did our public transport. So did the inner south rust-belt. So did our
waterfront.
That was three years before we won the bid, 10 before its enactment.
Things could still have changed.
Of course, I did not expect them to. But I was amazed, even then, that
there was no locational rationale; no remediation plan for a site whose
toxic depths were then unplumbed (Thiess Services later described it as
''one of the most contaminated sites in the world''); no adequate
transport plan, no park-village link".
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/pol...801-23fgj.html
But never mind, the ALP will rezone it and flog it off to new boat people.
--
Ian Plimer...
"Here we have the Australian government underpinning the biggest
economic decision this country has ever made and it's all based on fraud"


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