Last night we were dissing the over-acting in Harrow when somebody mentioned the Multifunction Polis and memories dredged up various ALP horrors. I had forgotten Gillman in north Adelaide but remembered Docklands and google says that for the Japanese it was all about the Gold Coast. Just reminded us how richly we are honoured with Govt. disasters. A journo should ask Albo how Labor plans are going for the MFP. The $150mill cost quoted would be ~$260mill today – postage stamp money today alongside the destruction of our power grid and Snowy 2.0.
When you look at today’s grid woes and high energy prices in SA, the MFP concept was doomed anyway.
Perhaps Albo can suggest a Chinese / green energy version in north QLD. That would be quite entertaining 😉
The Multifunction Polis always sounded creepy and its only legacy seems to be that the toilets smell a bit in Mawson Lakes, South Australia, due to building an extra water system for them.
How Australia expects these giant white elephants to walk is a mystery when we can’t even get public transport right. Think of all the cash being poured down the drain at the moment with “light rail” schemes. The bill for the one in southeast Sydney is heading for $3 billion, just for the track and the trams, with more subsidies required to actually operate them. For that money, the State government could have bought 3000 buses at a $1 million each, tripling its fleet for the entire metropolitan area. And avoided a traffic disaster along the route for 6 years or so…
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-light-rail-cost-blows-out-to-at-least-2-7b-after-settlement-20190603-p51tvc.html
This is a freak out.
“The 多元都市2020 / Multifunction Polis 2020 Consortium warmly welcomes you to it’s exhibition groundbreaking party”
chinesemuseum.com.au/exhibition-groundbreaking-party-by-multifunction-polis-2020-free-event/
I think they are having a laugh.
But it is odd in that these days who the $#^% would know what the MFP was??
I have not noticed the MFP in our media for years and years. Then your blog mentions it. This blog has plenty of material re China. So surely it is plausible that some Chinese people in Melbourne saw this blog and decided the MFP was a fair subject for humour.
Oh and look where some of that original money went.
“GAS ON THE TORRENS: The MFP
is pushing $150,000 into greenhouse
research. Remember the multi-func
tion polis? That’s the one. Research
ers from Japan’s National Institute
for Resources and Environment and
CS1RO will collaborate on the work
which aims to improve estimates of
greenhouse emissions, develop an in
ternational standard for quantifying
gas emissions, and study the impact
of particles produced by human and
natural activity.”
The Canberra Times Tue 7 Mar 1995 Page 11
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127516428
Another chapter in Ozzie love affair with the Multi-Function Polis. or Technology Park – whatever glitzy label.
The ‘mirage’ on Sydney’s outskirts 15Sep22 Just north new Western Sydney Airport
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-15/inside-sydney-science-park-development-near-new-aerotropolis/101400098
There are big plans for this vacant land in the Harbour City’s booming south-west. What the future holds depends on who you talk to.
It was supposed be Sydney’s answer to Silicon Valley.
But six years after plans for this $5 billion tech hub were approved, its near 300-hectare site is still a paddock.
The blueprint was bold: gleaming laboratories, office towers, a school and 12,000 much-needed jobs in the city’s booming south-western suburbs.
But there are now fears the Sydney Science Park dream is an expensive “mirage”, at risk of being turned into another housing estate on the city’s fringes, where residents must commute long distances to earn a crust.