News & Views: Another change of mind --- It's never ending.

The Aquis project is becoming a big joke with another change this time the licence application.
It's like "Eeni meni minee mo which casino licence do I forgo".
As reported in the Cairns post on Wednesday 23 April, 2014 The member for Cairns stated that the State Government had written to the Aquis Mega Resort to "persuade" them to formally apply for a casino licence.
For some unknown reason Mr Fung had pulled out of the intergrated resort development application process to negotiate using the Reef Hotel Casino licence to cover the Yorkeys Knob site, so the Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney wrote to them asking them to continue with the formal resort submission.
It is hard to believe that after the purchase of the Reef Hotel Casino that anyone would want to build another casino on flood plains at Yorkeys Knob, Oh sorry I correct myself the latest design shows TWO casinos at Yorkeys Knob, one has to ask "what are they thinking".

Latest design showing two casinos.

Our population is around 160,000 and the Reef Casino has shown not to be that profitable and you only have to google the web to see that the chinese are going to places like Hawaii.
Cairns really needs to get a handle on the costs for accomodation, sight seeing tours and food and until that is resolved with cheaper costs then the visitors arriving will keep on declining.
Also where is the EIS report that was going to be available before Christmas 2013 then put back till early January 2014 and then early April 2014, well at the time of writing this the date is the 26 April, 2014, there is something strange with this whole saga.
People are waiting on this report and if it doesn't surface soon then people will start yelling from the tree tops.
Just as an after thought the last cyclone (Ita) to pass by Cairns dropped a lot of water but not as much as we usually get and the area for the Aquis Resort was under water, see pictures below.
The road out of Yorkeys was cut off on Dunne Road, Yorkeys Road which by the way was upgraded by the previous council to prevent flooding but alas the road was covered in water.
The Captain Cook Highway was cut off between Yorkeys Knob roundabout and Machans Beach roundabout so it would be very interesting to see how the developers will overcome this problem.
It won't stop the flooding it just means that the water will be pushed out over a wider area.
Also people who think that this project will bring hundreds of jobs read the article (Wednesday April 16, 2014) below where it states that "China is demanding it be allowed to import Chinese workers into Australia to work on projects funded by Chinese investors under a proposed free trade agreement, sparking concerns within the Abbott government of a backlash, according to reports".
The state government should offer the land where the CEP was going to be built as this would allow the visitors to walk and visit the businesses in Cairns as this would compliment Cairns.

Below are the photos of the area where Aquis maybe built: