Brive1987 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:22 am
Hey Keating. Went to Floriade today with the family - first time. It appeared to be a mini Easter Show for Tulips.
But seriously. The diversity was astounding. Even for me. I reckon the very significant crowds were between 75% and 95% Indian/Chinese/ostentatious Muslim. Even my new-age daughter expressed interest.
I did note the circus lying between and across the plastic poppy AWM display, with one father loudly yelling “but they are fake flowers”
Yeah, I've noticed that in previous years. I'm not sure what it is about Floriade that draws the diversity in. If you walk around Burley Griffen when Floriade isn't on, you rarely encounter it. It's just Floriade. I occasionally see south-east Asians in my hiking groups, and my company's staff is fairly diverse. I'm living in a reasonably diverse area now too. There's some public housing nearby, which has some rather shady looking people (of all colours, including white). On the other hand, my immediate neighbours are Nepalese. I rather like them as they are doing their best to become bogans - they even have Australian flag beach towels. It's very noticeable in newer suburbs, not so much in established ones. Most of them have government jobs too, from talking with them.
I don't bother with Floriade anymore. Not because of the diversity, but because it's largely a commercial, money extracting venture these days, rather than being about flowers.
Is this demographic thing happening for a reason or did we just get lucky? Also. I note Civic (along Northborne) has been demolished in favour of big blocks of units to be serviced by light rail of some sort.
Welcome to Sydney.
Indeed. This is what Labor having single party status here does. Many of the MLAs who voted for the eye-sore that the tram is becoming have investments in those properties you'd have seen. I strongly suspect the boondoggle Canberra tram is going to give the Sydney one a run for
our money. That comes from having the bloody Greens holding the balance of power in the Legislative Assembly. Worse, when you think that the majority of Canberra voted against self-government in the 80s, but we got it anyways. The majority of us were also against expanding the number of leeches to 25 from 17, but we also got that anyway.