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Preserve Killalea's natural beauty
I have surfed The Farm at Killalea for 23 years now.
After travelling to many countries around the world, I can say without reservation that its pristine natural beauty and consistent surf is unrivalled. It is a beautiful spot. I have asked in my will for my ashes to be buried there, such is my love of the place.
It is with tremendous sadness that I see the area being slowly and deliberately destroyed. Matt Brown's decision to put more buildings at the site is particularly ill-conceived. Why can't we save just a little piece of our magical coastline from concrete?
It seems clear that if the Government would stop building car parks which no-one uses, buildings which no-one asked for, "eco classrooms" (ugly demountables) and stop using Killalea for "work for the dole or training schemes" and fences to (hopefully) stop the encroachment of housing estates onto the area we wouldn't need any money to make The Farm "self funding".
I wonder just what the Government pays for nowadays. It doesn't want to fund education, health, roads, airlines, banks, insurance, social security and so on. I reckon it's nothing more than a burgeoning bureaucracy of fat cat politicians and their superannuation and travel allowances.
When governments have surrendered everything in society to private industry why do we keep pretending we even need them? We may as well just outsource the government itself and let our country be run by a combination of Landcom, Indian call centres and Beijing.
I remember the days when you drove in from the northern entrance, then the road went through a road near the tip, after that the road was nothing but two tyre tracks through the long grass past the tip and farmlands. There was a ranger (who no one ever saw much of) and the place seemed to pretty much run itself just as nature intended. No-one needed "eco tourism" back then.
But "civilised man" couldn't leave it alone. The road was then slowly tarred and not long after the rot set in. When "the secret" got out, there was always the chance someone would try and make a buck out of it by adding concrete and bricks. That is the "nature" of capitalism.
The Farm is one of very few relatively unspoilt beaches in the area. It is unique and a sanctuary from all the garbage of the "developed world" nearby.
One is so close to "the real world" there, yet feels light years away. It is a fantastic spot to forget about life's problems for a while, get some exercise and fresh air and be at one with nature.
But Matt Brown and his developers want to take that away.
Surely with all the billions flooding into the country with the resources boom our government could spend a pittance to enable us to keep this little piece of "workers' paradise". I mean, we have delivered Mr Brown and his Labor mates safe seats for a long time now around here.
Besides the Kiama Bypass, there hasn't been much more money put into the area.
Brian Jones, Warilla.
Illawarra Mercury - 21 April 2007
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