Still flying high over Townsville is the large Adani coal mining company sign . In November, Adani changed its name to Bravus, an unfortunate move as academics pointed out the name could be taken to mean "villainous and crooked."
While describing itself as the Queen City of the North, Townsville is also the throbbing metropolis where large public clocks do not work . One is the former post office tower clock , below ; its failure to partly imitate London's Big Ben , mentioned in a British documentary , gives the impression of being permanently drunk .
Then there is the one over the railway travel centre that has been derailed for a long time . There could be two shovel-ready news stories for any wound up mainland media organisation that ventures into the CBD pits, looks about, asks questions. Regular checks of the city's neglected war memorials would also result in more copy, says our Shipping Reporter.
