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The blow-ins from the 'burbs : Comments
By Anna Daniel, published 22/2/2010For a variety of reasons our inner city CBDs are increasingly perceived as late night danger zones.
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Of course the popular Cloudland was never re-built and now everyone is forced to go to crowded, seedy nightclubs with bikies on the door and drugs with names starting with every letter of the alphabet available inside. Despite the Royal Commission, numerous inquiries (the recommendations of which are quietly put to sleep), Brisbane still has criminals controlling clubs and doubtless politicians and enforcement are back to turning a blind eye, or worse.
I have no doubt that government only pretends to listen to voters, while saving its full attention and priority for developers and entrepreneurs who are willing to wine and dine politicians and make large political donations.