Keep Australia Beautiful

Those too selfish and lazy to properly stash their trash better listen up. It’s time to take a leaf out of Singapore’s book and treat litterers like the criminals they are.

Chuck it, don't dump it. Photo: Herald Sun

I was a race virgin until recently. Sydney’s Rosehill Gardens is, as expected, an eclectic mix of beautiful and hideous dresses, faceless men with mobiles plastered to their ears on the balcony, hardcore punters in trackie dacks casting a hex on their rivals by invoking Tony Abbott’s name. It was like Parliament, really, with a touch of sunshine and horses.

But somewhere between struggling to walk back and forth from the racing track to the bookies on uneven ground in stilettos, something did surprise me. Betting tickets, plastic drinking cups, hotdog buckets, and loose change everywhere.

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  • Sam says:

    06:45pm | 02/01/12

    Yeah you can drive deep into the remote alpine areas and still find beer cans and tires along the side of the road, bunch of dirty bogans live in Australia, hard to comprehend the amount of damage done in such a small time, they even destroy and tag and burn… Read more »

  • subotic says:

    08:37am | 17/10/11

    Aaaaaah Singapore, that democratic jewel of Asia, the land of clean streets and home to religious intolerance on a scale probably only just less intolerant than say China or North Korea. 7 year old children and 70 year old grandmothers locked away in gulags for daring to believe in something… Read more »

 

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