We’ve seen this before
RE: Bypass on bumpy path (CP, 13/9).
The arrogance of the State Government has struck again.
This time it is the landowners of the Northern Beaches who are suffering with the State Government announcing the resumption of land to allow for the Smithfield bypass, even though this land had already been approved by the Cairns Regional Council. Sound familiar? The last time this happened is when the State Government overruled the CRC Cairns Plan 2016 and announced the Cairns South – State Development Area (SDA) without any consultation and requires the resumption of homes, sugar cane farms, the Meringa Research Stations etc.
In addition, the SDA was such a “thought bubble” by Curtis Pitt and the State Government, that they even had to overrule their own signatures to the CRC Cairns Plan 2016 as the SDA was not part of the plan that was approved by State Government. Seriously?
It seems that the State Government will do anything they want and bugger the rules. Karina Samperi, LNP Candidate for Mulgrave 1321: Dante Alighieri, Italy’s greatest
poet, dies. 1752: Britain adopts Gregorian calendar. 1814: Francis Scott Key writes America’s national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. 1927: Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan dies in Nice, France, when her scarf becomes entangled in a wheel of her sports car. 1960: Organisation of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. 1982: Lebanon’s president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, is killed by a bomb that shatters his party headquarters in east Beirut. 1990: The first ever gene therapy is carried out by W French Anderson at Bethesda, Maryland, on a four-year-old girl. 1996: Bosnia holds its first post-war
elections. 1997: German and US military planes collide off the coast of Namibia, killing 33 people. 2001: Ansett, Australia’s second biggest airline, collapses, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. 2003: Yetunde Price (above), a halfsister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, is shot and killed in Compton, an impoverished suburb of Los Angeles.