CRAWFORD AS LORD MAYOR TO LAUNCH A 22 PRONGED ATTACK ON MAKING MELBOURNE THE MOST POSITIVE AND FUN-FILLED CITY IN THE WORLD.

PRIORITY: To create a greater and joyous Melbourne. A vital City is a viable City. Make it vibrate, energetic and joyful.

1. 1. Encourage shops to have living windows I .E. a shoe shop may have a working model of the” Old Lady who lives in a shoe.” bands in music shops,, Models in clothing store windows. Celebrities wash hair in hairdresser windows, Make a cake, etc. 2.  Launch a lottery to pay for city extras that follow. 3.  Lord Mayor to address Parliament once a year.  4. Colourful mono rail to service car parks to be a tourist attraction and service car parks to cut down city traffic. 5. The information  Volunteer people to be dressed classily as a major add for the city and a major part of its image. 6. Bring back “Free entertainment in the parks” as a major community involvement and tourist attraction. 7.  Get the State Government to have a Mono rail running from the airport. 8. Mayor’s of the state to be introduced to the people of Melbourne.  9. Fashion week to take to the streets. 10. Prizes for glamour man and girl of the day who walk the city streets voted for by the wonderful volunteers. 11. Walking quizters to the streets and give prizes. 12.  Special days put aside to focus on goods with gimmicks I.E.” National leg in the air day. “ Advertise shoes as a combining of all shoe shops in the CBD.” Fun
must be the soul of the city. 13.  Walkways such as down Bourke between Swanston and  Elizabeth to have lit plaques in the pavement made live as an attraction when guests are asked to partake in the operation and others in past history included. I. E. .In memory of our greatest cricketers, or Our greatest pop stars could be say be between Elizabeth and Queen and so on Footballers walk, Olympic heroes walk. Musical comedies walkway.  Architects, Scientists, etc. with all our icons past and present. One a day. 14.  The Pleasure gardens. This concept is to make more available to see the icons in the over a hundred parts of the gardens Victoria, Domain, Botanical and Shrine to the elderly, frail & the remedial. 15. Streetscapes. Brightly coloured designs on the streets and pavements making the whole city a work of art. 16. To add to the efficiency of the time taken to find places a special protocol in the placement of easily seen numbers on buildings to be made. 17. Those with awnings and veranda fronts that look tired to be given a suggestion list available of how to make them more attractive as a free service. 18. Free entrepreneurial classes for city retailers and managers. 19. History themes and greats ( to make people aware we have some) would be priority in the planning. 20. Administration roles of city departments to have a greater profile. 21. Street alert. Lucky numbers to appear suddenly on city pavements. IF YOU WRITE DOWN THREE YOU GET A PRIZE. 22. Talking Statues that tell a different gag every day. 23. Gimmicks like scented pods floating in the city with happy notes. 24. Music / see through cones are lowered for dancers to dance in. 25. Giant sculptor superscape for Haymarket sight mirroring how we conduct ourselves as a city.  26. Glow tubes. Stand in them and you change colour.
  25. All new buildings to have awnings that move out further into the street keeping in mind shade for the coming heat. 26.Cluster days when each suburb or city is given a day to star in the city Melbourne. &. Glow fantasy mall. 27. Promote new Virtual Reality punishments for crime.  28. Fantasy mall walk.  29. Telescopic bike racks in the kerb stones. 30. A floating wedge tail eagle at the city entrance floating high above the junction of Flinders and Swanston streets.  31.” Melbourne’s visitors badge.” Extend the fabulous red coated volunteers to the international airports where they give visitors an emblem shaped like a key. The city populace to on seeing the badge on the visitor encouraged to greet them with “Welcome to the friendly city.” 32. Unique to the world on rainy days multi coloured lighting on the raindrops at certain times. 33. Clown day. Teddy bear picnic day. Sideshow day. 34. Renew Pomp and ceremony for the Lord Mayor. Special music on entrance and exits. Inspecting the guard. Bring back my “Victoria day” and “Melbourne day” celebrations.  35. Liquor marketers to finance added security 36. More Public Transport, more often. 37. “Leadership. As Federal government take power from the States, the States take the power from the people – the community is losing more than resources; it is losing its voice. Let’s bring back community for a new way forward.

Let us lead the world.