Hard to know where to start regarding Rose Wanchap’s bizarre advertorial last week. Her Third-World housing price theories (just build more and the prices will drop – hey that’s certainly worked, er, nowhere… ) aside, the thought bubbles regarding the solar array etc for West Byron are totally beholden to the developers intent.
The most disturbing part of her dream (for the love of god, wake up Rose!) regards the fictional Koala Sanctuary. Levelling known natural koala habitat to build a ‘sanctuary’ for them beggars belief.
And according to Rose, everyone of our 1.5 million shire visitors will drop in for a pat and a photo of the ‘two koalas that are known to live currently onsite’.
So to avoid needing Byron’s Largest Car Park to cater for all those animal lovers visiting Koala World, we could set up the world’s first drive-through koala sanctuary and put a Maccas at the entrance – ‘do you want a koala with that?’.
When Rose does wake from her reverie she’ll realise it was all just a freakish nightmare, and she can go back to representing us. Phew!
Geoff Southward, Suffolk Park
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