A Happier New Year!

A Happy New Year to all Bundy Blog readers and contributors.

The Team at Bundy Blog would like to thank you for your support in getting this platform for free speech up and running.  

A place where the community of Bundaberg Region can offer their comment and opinions freely. 

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Looking forward to your continued support in 2009.

Bundy Blog Team

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Time For Parking Meters and One Way Traffic

Those of us whom use our own vehicles to traverse Bourbong Street know only too well the dodgem car mentality that is rampant from Kennedy Bridge to the rail line.  

Council needs to well and truly bite the bullet and make some decisions on making the main shopping precinct of Bourbong Street 'user friendly'.  

Get rid of the shop keepers and staff cars and install 1 hour parking meters and make the main part of Bourbong Street one way east to west.

One way traffic works exceptionally well in Adelaide and Brisbane and keeps everything flowing.  

Shop keepers and  staff will get pretty sick, pretty quick putting a $1 in the meter every hour.

Development of parking in areas such as over the east side of Kennedy bridge is a natural development with plenty of land, non sporting of course, that is ready to be made for all day parking and, god forbid, shopkeepers and staff can walk to work from there.  Oh yeah and get healthy and the same time. Perhaps Council can give everyone who parks there a pedometer to encourage fitness.

Come on Council get real with the centre of town, encourage family friendly centre of City to combat the rise of the super malls such as Sugarland, Hinkler and the like, and come up with real solutions not repeat the sins of the past of countless other towns/city's across the country.

Shearing Shed In Botanical Gardens

Have you been down to the Bundaberg Botanical Gardens recently? You really should. Council have built this wonderful monument to the backbone of our country, the shearers! Firstly it was supposed to be an aviation musuem at the Botanical Gardens instead of near an airport and now they produced a shearing shead that houses a plane.

'The Shed' is a beautiful example of a windowless, corrugated iron shearing shed where you could easily house at least 1000 sheep ready to be fleeced.   Perhaps though that is what has exactly happenend to the ratepayers of Bundaberg Regional Council in wearing the cost of this 'Tourist Attraction'.   Of course they deserve credit for their recycling efforts in saving old iron sheets they found lying around from the closed down sugar mills, they have done a great job on colouring some of them in nice pastal colours and placing the very Picasso like on one side.

Thank God the Quay St Turtle Centre didn't get off the ground, the mind boggles at what would have been the end result of that one.

Perhaps now that Council has gotten the 'Everything Hinkler' bug out of their system and we may get some decent tourism development.   How about a large indoor glass Arboretum at the new Airport that houses 'The Big Turtle', now there's an attraction.

Bundy Region - Community Leadership?

The of Bundaberg Region has recently come of age with the amalgamation of smaller local Councils with the larger Bundaberg City Council. 

However its seems that what is still lacking in our community Leaders is Community Leadership.  There is an obvious need for further the development of skilled community leaders across the region.  The development of enhanced leadership skills will enable greater levels of vision for the future, and the development a cohesive long term solution oriented approaches.

 

Sir Gustav Nossal believes that the challenge of today’s Community Leaders is not to be afraid of creating healthy and open debate for as surely as night follows day, “The sky won’t fall in when todays’ leaders challenge the future!”

 

Positive Community Leaders  develop a shared vision and set strategies for their community’s wellbeing that addresses, head on, the elements that affect an individual and family’s ability to engage in positive pursuits. 

The new Regional Council needs to be creating layered community leadership at all levels within the region, that offers greater capacity building pathways for individuals and community.  This in turn provides greater community resilience during difficult times and uses its assetts fully to move toward more prosperous positive ones.