rhino wrote:adam73837 wrote:Firstly, any government would build a new hospital, .
MHS's Liberals say they
won't. They would rather patch up the craphole that we currently call our major hospital.
adam73837 wrote: As for the 'super schools' is there any proof that they will be very successful? .
There's plenty of evidence that the current system is
not successful. Small schools, while they can offer a sense of community, cannot afford to offer the range of educational services that a superschool can offer. Sure, it's something new and as yet unproven, but the theory is good and the current system is failing the kids.
adam73837 wrote:Then there's the Bakewell Underpass. Just for everyone who is questioning it, it was an 80-year old bridge that had had HEAPS of traffic using it for an extremely long time. Of course it had to be redeveloped. .
And it got redeveloped by Rann. How much infrastructure development was there under the previous government? Very very little.
adam73837 wrote:An as for those underpasses on South Road, they're just band-aid solutions to a problem that will not go away with a few underpasses. What we need is a large ring route sytem with a north-south corridor .
The underpasses are the affordable solution. Got any ideas on how we should pay for land aquisition to build your freeway empire?
adam73837 wrote:Meanwhile, the new prison for Adelaide and the desal plant have not been built .
To say "we're going to build this" and then build it without planning it would be folly. You say you are not interested in going into politics - thank God for that!
Rhino, you seem to forget that this is Rann's second term and over this time he has been very fortunate that the Australian economy has done well and that we've reaped from the GST, that SA is back on its feet after the repairs by the previous Liberals (who had to do the unpopular and dirty work of selling our utilities). The mining (see high prices and overseas demand), defence and property boom is also falling into Rann’s lap. The issue now is for Rann to make the right decisions, but also listen to the public that voted for him. Underpasses may be well and good when they are appropriate (Bakewell), but patch ups like South Road are only that. When are we going to have that North-South Freeway, can Rann give us a timeline? Rann's mentor got it wrong in that department. What we need to see is a detailed transport and infrastructure plan asap, not one project here and one there, and this is regardless of Labor or Liberal. Let the general public get a debate going, with the pros and cons, and not be secretive.
Superschools are not proven. A new system has to be better than the old, not just the same, or else don’t change it. In the old days those from the left cried when a community lost its school, now all of a sudden there’s been a complete turnaround. Personally I think there will be money saved, but there will be money spent elsewhere to get the kids to the superschool, particularly if they are underprivileged.
As for the desal plant, you’ve got to thank the Libs and the SA public for pressuring Rann. Now let’s hope he does a good job of it.
Policing and prisons? That makes me laugh. A socialist government should be creating situations where people avoid getting into crime, or at the worst rehabilitating them. That’s what they should concentrate on. Like health, we should be looking at a healthier society, which needs less doctors and less hospital beds. To me the hospital is a non-issue. We’ll get one regardless of where it is. As long as it doesn’t cost us an arm or a leg (no pun intended).
Cheers
