Did you frock-up?

Would you believe that my first visit to Broken Hill, was via my car having 'broken' down, just 20kms out from it.

Spent a week there, while my car was being fixed.
It felt like 50C degrees out there.
I had to dress like a Mujahadeen, to keep from 'frying' like an egg.

What I found was a large Town, that was slowly winding down from its Golden Age of Mining.
Like many towns nowadays, its a Town, that now has to find other means (like Mardi Gras) to keep some sort of attraction going for it.

But what I saw as its Potential.
Was that it is placed 'strategically' right in the middle of almost equal distance - to the big cities of Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide and to a lesser extent Melbourne.

To me, I saw Broken Hill as the 'TERMINAL CITY' (Terminicity) of them all.
A huge 'trading' centre of Technology, Logistics and more.

If Australia is to progress 'internally'. Then it has to do so via Broken Hill. If it can't 'make it' via Broken Hill, then Australia will really be just a Coastal Nation that can't cut the mustard in the middle and just sits on the side-line, really.
There's more - but its lengthy.
I even have the new 'City' plan design.
I'm pretty good. At 16, I came up with the 'original' vision and plan for Upper Parramatta River to be turned into a Venice-like area of Gondolas, River-Front boardwalks, Restaurants, Shops ...to which, just a few years ago - Architects have now offered something similar.

Broken Hill can just sit in the past and dream of the Good ol' Mining Age or it can embrace a New Future.