Melbourne needs a world class theme park

You know Victorians are desperate for decent family destinations when there’s widespread jubilation about the refurbishment of Gumbuya Park, 65km from Melbourne.

As far as the tourism sector goes, Melbourne has two major and obvious deficiencies: no rail link from the airport to the city and lack of a bona fide amusement park.

You know Victorians are desperate for decent family destinations when there’s widespread jubilation about the refurbishment of Gumbuya Park, 65km from Melbourne.

Melbourne needs a world-class amusement park much closer to the city and with easy access to public transport.

A city of more than four and half million people and a state with close to six million can sustain a substantial amusement park — and then there are the millions of international and interstate visitors who would also be drawn to it.

There’s no reason Victorian families should have to travel to Queensland so their children can enjoy first-rate theme parks such as Movie World, Sea World, Wet’n’Wild, Dreamworld and WhiteWater World.

Why can’t we have Australia’s Disneyland here in Melbourne? All that is needed is a site of sufficient size somewhere near the city, perhaps to the west of the Docklands.

Let’s be honest, the Docklands experiment hasn’t worked. The place is a soulless ghost town of half empty apartment blocks and windswept walkways where few Melburnians venture.

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