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| The Mayor Bob Manning |
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| Deborah Hancock |
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| Trent Twomey |
http://www.cairnspost.com.au/business/chamber-calls-for-aquis-decision-to-be-made-quickly/news-story/3ba2d8bee7b9fdd14aa49e0ec1c92eda
The past 3 years has not shown any progress what so ever except
to say "there will a big announcement shortly" regarding Aquis but don't hold your breathe.
The most important thing to remember is that when the trade agreement was signed during the Tony Abbott reign any invetsor who invests more than $150 million dollars does NOT HAVE TO USE AUSTRALIAN WORKERS so why are people pushing this project as Cairns will get nothing as far as employment goes.
Tony fung walked away from the Gold Coast Sheraton Mirage the same as he did with the Cairns project and he probably will walk away again.
Interesting to read recently that Tony Fung stated that he had considered purchasing the Reef Casino but had "backed off" due to the possible hostility with shareholders.
He (Fung) needs to be aware of the hostility within the community of Cairns after he walked away from the Reef Casino and left town quietly and purchased the Canberra Casino which still does not have pokies and probably never will.
Now we have The Mayor of Cairns, CEO of the Cairns Chamber of Commerce and Trent Twomey from Advance Cairns which is supported by the Cairns Regional Council (the Mayor is a director of Advance Cairns) and receives donations every year why, they never seem to do anything that we hear about.
We always hear the Fungs are having positve discussions http://www.cairnsvideonews.com/2015/09/positive-talkswheres-paper-work.html
but nothing happens which is not surprising as they have not yet submitted the required paperwork the same as they did with the LNP when they were in power.
To think that the 3 above mentioned people are demanding that the government fast track the Aquis licence is totally irresponsible taking into consideration that this is an $8.5 billion dollar project and if it's not done right then the rate payers will end up paying to clean up the mess.
Remember when Aquis first surfaced at a cost of $4.2 billion dollars the Fungs were going to do marvelous things such as build four lane road build an overpass at the Caravonica roundabout etc then the announcement came that the design had changed and the cost a staggering $8.5 billion dollars all paid for by the Fungs but they changed their offer towards infastructure and stated that they assist in a small way why because they probably didn't have the cash.
They bought the Canberra Casino and were to place it on the Hong Kong stock exchange which didn't happen it was eventually put on the Australian stock exchange http://www.cairnsvideonews.com/2015/08/gold-coast-investor-tony-fung-floats.html
Eventually the public found out through the media that Tony Fung had secured two investors to help build Aquis or is this another ploy? we will have to wait and watch.
http://www.cairnspost.com.au/business/aquis-forms-key-chinese-alliance-to-finance-cairns-casino/news-story/c232510f2cb739caec27ee57fee2c24c
Comments in todays Cairns Post showed that 95% of the people commenting don't want Aquis, why, because they are fed up with all the bullshit that has gone on with this project.
To the civic leaders start doing things for Cairns businesses and the council should be more concerned with roads, footpaths and tidying up the CBD.
Cairns is a TOURIST REGIONAL CITY NOT A GAMBLING CITY.
If Aquis was to go ahead (which I doubt) this will create more heartbreak within families, more prostitution, increase in crime and has happened everywhere else the triads will be involved somehow and no work for locals and Cairns will be lost forever.
Finally, it cannot be found from 2011 to 2015 a listing showing that Tony Fung is a millionaire let alone a billionaire.
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