The aerial shot of the new Town Square definitely marks a shift in Port Macquarie from a country community with a Town Green to an ugly concrete jungle of a Town Square.
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This neo-brutalistic architecture could be borrowed from a plaza we could see in Moscow or Beijing hosting a military parade.
To my eye it does not look like an inviting tourist destination.
As a semi-tropical destination we need more colour from flowering plants which are replaced each season to be planted in raised flower beds wide enough for people to sit around the edge.
The flowering plants were removed from the other end of Horton St at its junction with Gordon Street and we no longer see the words Port Macquarie formed by the flowers.
When we spend money on public spaces, we expect something aesthetically pleasing at best or at least halfway acceptable at worst.
This minimalistic concept for the Town Square just does not make the acceptable grade through the heat it will generate quite apart from its sheer ugliness.
Colleen Carmody
Port Macquarie
PETA’s dairy campaign
A stuffed cow, an Adelaide pizza restaurant, angry diners. What’s wrong with this picture?
Diners are confronted at seeing the remains of an animal who lost her babies, her health and her life so that humans could have a fleeting taste sensation.
PETA commends Etica for hanging up the body of slaughtered 8-year-old cow Schvitzy, and giving people a taste of where their food comes from.
The dairy industry takes babies from their mothers at birth, so that humans can take the milk for shakes and pizzas.
The mothers bellow and cry for days for their lost calves – I grew up on a dairy farm and am still haunted by their obvious grief, cries which went on all night.
The babies are transported, hungry and terrified, to slaughter or, if female, may replace their exhausted mothers.
Often lame and suffering from mastitis, dairy cows are “spent” and sent for slaughter at around five to seven years old, less than a quarter of their potential life span.
Perhaps some customers will be shamed by the thought that for a fleeting taste, living, feeling beings like Schvitzy are denied all hope and joy in life – and are ultimately denied life itself.
We urge Etica to go a step further and add videos showing the truth about the abuse of cows, which we will gladly supply to them.
Desmond Bellamy
Special Projects Coordinator
PETA Australia
