Rename and modernise

Congratulations to our newly-elected Gosford Council for its resolve to modernise the name of Brisbane Water.

A breath of fresh air is blowing through our local government.

Let Queenslanders keep their Brisbane, I say.

Perhaps Mariners Marina would be more appropriate for us?

But why stop there?

Bourke Rd in Ettalong and Umina must be renamed also.

What relevance has a remote outback town to thriving seaside suburbs?

In fact, Gosford itself must be reshaped.

War Memorials have had their day.

Some of them must be over 100 years old.

They should be demolished or regrouped in a suitably less obtrusive place.

Schools should be removed to the fringes of the city area, where they would cease to occupy valuable real estate.

Bold innovations of this sort would enable Council to erect high-rise residential apartments on the waterfront, bringing in affluent residents and admiring tourists and creating high returns to our investors and developers.

Gosford has the chance to be a national and even international leader in such progressive enterprise.

The city of Orange in the central west might well follow and rename its' Cook Park, the present title of which has little relation to the surrounding vineyards and cherry orchards.

Scotland might well review the vast tracts of waste land surrounding its Wallace Memorial.

But Council must move fast or we shall be left behind by the present great cultural surge from the Gold Coast through The Entrance and Warnervale.

Email, 15 Dec 2012

Ivan Kinny, Pearl Beach