Bars Bearpit and Sandpit resume trading
Dusting off the chair centre stage, Elvis polishes a few glasses, and prepares to open the show on a new season in the bearpit bar. He is expecting some serious competition for the entertainment dollar and some rowdy scenes, particularly in the immediate days ahead, and has another run at a hunk of burnin' love just in case.
The Member for Sydney arrives looking composed even after a big night
over at the Townie Hotel, but secretly she is worried. The Mayor of the
Dead Zone has been in her ear to express her concern that they also
need new and functional PoPE planning
laws for entertainment if new liquor licenses are going to
work, and she knows too that she will also have to support changes to
NSW planning laws this year or her vision for a new night time economy
in the city will go awry.
The comrade for KuRing Gai agrees wholeheartedy that indeed, the whole
northside of the bridge is a dead zone after dark all the way up the
highway, not to mention an international embarrassment. If any of his
comrades from north of the bridge that have constituents who want their
kids to be creative and musical, his only honest advice is that
currently they have no future at all in their electorates, unless we
fix NSW PoPE planning laws for
entertainment, he suggests sagely.
Contrary to comments in Crikey.com that the south side of the Bar has
no talent, feisty comrades Mike Baird and Andrew Stoner as well as the
highly gifted Adrian Piccoli have a few shouts lined up for their own
comrades, and are looking forward to ordering a few doubles in
2008.
Over in the Sandpit Bar, The NSW head croupier already has a huge pile
of what he insists are all his chips lined up on one solitary but
most topical square on the table, and is also super keen to get
back to the main game.
The Coalition House Dealer is relaxed and comfortable, having split a
concession fare with the Head Croupier whilst on Hols, even sharing a
durry between the carriages on the Casino to Murwullumbah flyer.
Letting slip a hot tip from Greiner comrades John Turner, Duncan
Gay, Andrew Fraser, and George Souris that a certain utilities
privatisation was something that has been NSW Liberal Party policy from
waaaaaaaay back if only they could have got it over the line, he winks
across the bar at the last member on the ALP sandpit guest list, who
confirms that indeed, on this special day, the atmosphere is
electric.
Feeling less jovial, the Count keeps his own counsel, watching and
waiting, whilst the Quiet One glides past, espousing confidently that
new liquor laws will make a genuine difference to improving the
quality of living of NSW residents, and particularly needed in outer
metro areas such as Blacktown - but are doomed to fail at the
application stage unless we fix NSW PoPE planning laws for
entertainment.