Posted to Letters to Editor, Monash Weekly on 2/7/2012 at 10:00 PM
Title: "Kingsway karaoke gets green light"
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/content/letterstotheeditor/
The City shopping precinct is not very large compared with some suburbs. Having three Karaoke bars seems far from excessive. I am not proud to live in a City which is second highest in contributing towards gambling loss, or in a State claiming highest binge drinking record.
With another "entertainment" site where alcohol is served till 3 am, and more than likely females providing services beyond just accompanying clients in singing, the City is doomed even if it is not mentioned in the Aztec calendar.
Competition is good for consumers but not among the competing businesses. When one's business and hence profit is cannibalised, trouble will flare. In some Australian suburbs, shopkeepers are subjected to pressures to pay protection money, and very soon City of Monash will experience the same if business operation like this is not curbed and monitored. Once organised gangs move in, it is difficult to weed them out.
Many Monash Councillors are too young and have no life experience to make such crucial decisions, while the remainders are so isolated from the rest of the world to understand what is like beyond the long Australian coastline.
Title: "Kingsway karaoke gets green light"
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/content/letterstotheeditor/
The City shopping precinct is not very large compared with some suburbs. Having three Karaoke bars seems far from excessive. I am not proud to live in a City which is second highest in contributing towards gambling loss, or in a State claiming highest binge drinking record.
With another "entertainment" site where alcohol is served till 3 am, and more than likely females providing services beyond just accompanying clients in singing, the City is doomed even if it is not mentioned in the Aztec calendar.
Competition is good for consumers but not among the competing businesses. When one's business and hence profit is cannibalised, trouble will flare. In some Australian suburbs, shopkeepers are subjected to pressures to pay protection money, and very soon City of Monash will experience the same if business operation like this is not curbed and monitored. Once organised gangs move in, it is difficult to weed them out.
Many Monash Councillors are too young and have no life experience to make such crucial decisions, while the remainders are so isolated from the rest of the world to understand what is like beyond the long Australian coastline.
