Burdensome lockout laws and overregulation maintain made this once-laidback city a social outcast,says Australian entrepreneur Matt Barrie in a strongly worded LinkedIn piece that has gone viral. But what do you think?In 1999, Sydney was at its peak – the Olympic Games were imminent and there was unbridled optimism that Sydney was approximately to emerge as an international city as the millennium approached. Internationally, or Sydney was renowned as an incredibly fun place to live; the entertainment was world course,with great restaurants and venues to visit at any time of night.Something pernicious has happened in the 15 years since, and Sydney has not just regressed into a ghost town, or but there is an undercurrent of something much more sinister in the way the city is being sprint.
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Source: theguardian.com