The cost will be approximately $40 million to replace one of the stadiums.

Why doesn’t the government utilise the $40 million to build low cost housing.

If the moneys were used to erect a dwelling with the government's contribution being $250,000 the benefits could be as follows:-

Individual houses could be built – 160 houses @ $250,000.00 per house = $40 million.

The building contracts could be issued to local small businesses rather than paying large sums to different tiers such as architects, project managers, supervisors, etc.  

Why not give regional tradesmen and suppliers the opportunity to receive of the funds from sales of government assets.

A key question is how many people from west of the Dividing Range or those who are average income earners regularly attend the stadiums taking into account entrance fees?

IT WAS this week announced that the former New South Wales premier Mike Baird has been appointed the National Australia Bank’s chief customer officer of corporate and international banking.

This will be deeply concerning to a lot of people.

I wonder what the reaction will be of those of their clients who are in the greyhound racing industry, those citizens in the small towns who were forced into council amalgamation and the approval of Uber with the damaging of the taxi industry.

Maybe the former Premier will have a strong and negative effect on the bank’s customers who are most upset with Baird’s decisions. Thank God he is out of politics!

WHOA!

It's bad enough that the state government department, the RMS, is spending taxpayer's funds sponsoring TV programs by placing ads for personalised car registration plates. 

Now we have the director of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) spending money on fripperies like floats in the gay Mardi Gras, with the hard-earned, compulsorily acquired funds from livestock producers. 

A short minute or two researching this "wunderkind" reveals a person who has been lauded by some obscure media awards in Sydney for his development of TV ads. 

Basically, it was all about him, just all about him. 

Nothing more, nothing less. 

Anything for five minutes of fame at some pathetic self-glorification event. 

The livestock producers need to have a very hard look at the terms under which this employee has been allowed free rein at their hard-earned money and the directors who have enabled this to happen.

I AM WELL aware that free trade benefits some Australian industries but I think it will bring Australia to her knees as more and more industries disappear as they cannot compete with imports.

Here is a classic example.

The Australian dairy industry has been battling {and having been a dairy farmer, I know the heartbreak involved} and despite this, $1.7 billion worth of dairy products were imported into Australia in the last year.

I rest my case.