Welcome to Sydney. Famous for its policing which is either over zealous or non existent.
Initially I wasn’t particularly fussed about this group of politicians holding a meeting in Sydney.
But then it became apparent that that our government officials were taking this little gathering wayyyyy too seriously. To the point were they were actively discouraging people from making their opinions felt with a public demonstration.
For months our officials have been talking up potential violence, blowing our taxes on fencing us out of a chunk of our own city, buying water cannons, and digging up an astounding number of police to line the footpaths.
A hundred and fifty million dollars spent on security, that is able to be breached by a comedy sketch show posing as a Canadian delegation.
I can't believe that NSW tax payers are prepared to accept such incompetence and oppression.
The way I see it, I helped pay for the APEC party. I should at least go down and see what sort of fun I was missing out on.I’m finding it hard to believe that for all those years we were bagging out Queensland for being a ‘police state’ when Joh B was around.
Check this shit out...
It's bizarre what Sydney will spend money on. APEC instead of fixing the country tracks we call roads. Desalination plants rather then recycling.
Well, everyone likes Canadians right.
ReplyDeleteremember the state government had no choice, the orders came from Canberra. When one of the state ministers spoke against it early on he was pulled into line very quickly. Canberra arranged it and took what little credit there was and NSW was left with the bill and the bad press.
ReplyDeleteit sounds trite and cliched but it's true nonetheless: welcome to politics.
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