• The Larter Family's inspiration from
the Kolmarden Wildlife Park in Sweden, for their new Gondola proposal for
Launceston's Cataract Gorge Reserve, has now identified a fourth contender
vying to build a cable car tourist attraction in Launceston.
• The Glebe Farm, being reduced in size by the UTas land grab for 'platform farming and carparking', is being investigated for utilising the balance area for a Tasmanian Wildlife exhibit to be accessed and viewed via a cablecar gondola. Utilising some of the old QVMAG dinosaur models, a realistic swampland environment will give an authenticism to its overall Gondwanaland theme.
• Flooding risks accepted, a feature for the kiddies amusement and useful from an educational viewpoint will be a facsimile Noah's Ark, not inappropriate in terms of including infrastructure to withstand inundations.
• Older residents of Launceston, will recall the once-proposed Dinosaur Park by leading entrepreneur Roger Smith for the West Tamar Highway wetlands below Trevallyn in the 1970's. The Glebe Gondwanaland attraction is intended to cater for night time openings to take advantage of special effects sound lighting and strobe lighting displays, attracting customers from around its perimeter to this centralised wonderland.
• There are quite a few collectors in Northern Tasmania who are quite angry that they were not told soon enough about the QVMAG Garage Sale a week or so back. The advertising was so bad that nobody turned up and all the goodies that the mates mates could not find a place for at home went to the tip apparently. It is said that there may be another after the consultant's report is released and there might be some really good goodies up for the taking in that one. Keep an eye out here we'll let you know if we get any news.
• . City TAFE Campus will be moving to Alanvale by the end of the year, save Drysdale, which has too much invested in Paterson Street to be part of the relocation move. This could free up the Wellington St Campus for QVMAG, allowing consolidation on to a single site at last. That in turn would open the door for UTas to take over the remaining part of the Stone Building at Inveresk…..they don't want the 'tin shed' bits 'though because that is too contaminated …..hmm watch that space before Don Railway are coaxed along to become interested as an occupier?
• . The QVMAG is sitting on a secret consultant's report that it is said makes a case for closing QVMAG Inveresk campus to the public and turn all the buildings UTas doesn't want into storage. The clean out has already started.
• . Disappointments expressed concerning the loss of the 3 flagpoles at the Myer end of the Brisbane Street Mall have led to further doubts being expressed that a third flagpole will not be erected on the Town Hall rooftop so that the traditional daily raising of an Aboriginal flag in a prominent location will disappear. So far there are no flagpoles at the new Government offices at C H Smith Centre. The lone flagpole atop the Public Offices on St John Street that was taken down for repairs has still not been returned, and so it may become necessary for Westpac Bank to re-start its National campaign to erect prominent flagstaffs on round-a-bouts at city entrances.
• . On the topic of badging or marking out one's territory, the stripped down yellow steel signage structure on the Invermay frontage of the Inveresk Cultural Site, remains 'un-dressed' leading to further anxiety that Queen Victoria Museum will not be remaining there. When originally erected, this sign was argued as being essential to the business plan for QVMAG, but is obviously no longer required, as the Museum seems to happily remain at Inveresk, well-hidden behind circles of plane trees.
• . On the Gorge, the Council has sacked all its volunteers at the cottage and around and about really disappointing many given that they had local knowledge the visitors kept on telling them they valued. Anyway, when the accolades went out at the Volunteer Awards there were none for that dedicated band Gorge volunteers. The Mayor wondered why they hadn't been invited and why there were no awards for them. Well, if you sack people it seem there are no awards for saving the city money or losing good services.
• There are quite a few collectors in Northern Tasmania who are quite angry that they were not told soon enough about the QVMAG Garage Sale a week or so back. The advertising was so bad that nobody turned up and all the goodies that the mates mates could not find a place for at home went to the tip apparently. It is said that there may be another after the consultant's report is released and there might be some really good goodies up for the taking in that one. Keep an eye out here we'll let you know if we get any news.
• . City TAFE Campus will be moving to Alanvale by the end of the year, save Drysdale, which has too much invested in Paterson Street to be part of the relocation move. This could free up the Wellington St Campus for QVMAG, allowing consolidation on to a single site at last. That in turn would open the door for UTas to take over the remaining part of the Stone Building at Inveresk…..they don't want the 'tin shed' bits 'though because that is too contaminated …..hmm watch that space before Don Railway are coaxed along to become interested as an occupier?
• . The QVMAG is sitting on a secret consultant's report that it is said makes a case for closing QVMAG Inveresk campus to the public and turn all the buildings UTas doesn't want into storage. The clean out has already started.
• . Disappointments expressed concerning the loss of the 3 flagpoles at the Myer end of the Brisbane Street Mall have led to further doubts being expressed that a third flagpole will not be erected on the Town Hall rooftop so that the traditional daily raising of an Aboriginal flag in a prominent location will disappear. So far there are no flagpoles at the new Government offices at C H Smith Centre. The lone flagpole atop the Public Offices on St John Street that was taken down for repairs has still not been returned, and so it may become necessary for Westpac Bank to re-start its National campaign to erect prominent flagstaffs on round-a-bouts at city entrances.
• . On the topic of badging or marking out one's territory, the stripped down yellow steel signage structure on the Invermay frontage of the Inveresk Cultural Site, remains 'un-dressed' leading to further anxiety that Queen Victoria Museum will not be remaining there. When originally erected, this sign was argued as being essential to the business plan for QVMAG, but is obviously no longer required, as the Museum seems to happily remain at Inveresk, well-hidden behind circles of plane trees.
• . On the Gorge, the Council has sacked all its volunteers at the cottage and around and about really disappointing many given that they had local knowledge the visitors kept on telling them they valued. Anyway, when the accolades went out at the Volunteer Awards there were none for that dedicated band Gorge volunteers. The Mayor wondered why they hadn't been invited and why there were no awards for them. Well, if you sack people it seem there are no awards for saving the city money or losing good services.
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