Heritage listing boost for MCG

Heritage listing boost for MCG:

"Mr Costello was speaking during the lunch break on the first day of the Boxing Day Test between Australia and South Africa at the 152-year-old stadium, which has just been extensively redeveloped in preparation for next year's Commonwealth Games."

You would expect the Melbourne Cricket Ground to have had a long and distinguished cricketing tradition. It all started in 1853. Mr. Costello is right, every Australian knows the MCG because if they don't follow the cricket, they will know the venue as the home of the AFL grand final. It will also be used for the Commonwealth Games. We are too quick to destroy our history and our old buildings. It worries me how easily we can and do pull the old buildings down because they are old! Like the Balfours building in town looks to be going to be destroyed to make way for the new , swanky bus station. If the new bus station is as good as our new airport it will be well worth the trade in heritage. I find it hard to understand that people here have no appreciation of "old" when it comes to architecture. Most of Adelaide has been sacrificed to the concrete and clay and the North Terrace tree rip up is a plum example of our respect for heritage. It's like we cannot accept we have roots and history. Old is synonymous with useless. Pretty odd way to think, especially, when we do care about heritage, like the Adelaide Railway Station, we are very inventive in preserving old and adapting it to new style living.