Dear Mr Chris Hartcher, Liberal Member for Central Coast
I attended the launch of the Five Lands Walk this morning. CEO Central Coast Tourism, Ollie Philpot, spoke eloquently about how this great walk has grown organically out of the community, and how good that is..
Speaker after speaker, Deborah O'Neill, the Mayor, all spoke about how “inclusive" the project was, how it was bringing people together. No speaker dared mention the larger event due to happen this week, even as to what’s to happen Wednesday morning, hung in whispered references and shaking heads over the launch.
That's because the sinking of the Adelaide is the opposite of everything which is good about Five Lands Walk, and which was being celebrated this morning.
The scuttling, far from being organic and inclusive, is a Terrigal business initiative which has been imposed, forced, on Avoca Beach and which has, given the brutality of this forcing, the lies which have been employed, divided the community like no issue I can recall.
This is an act of bullying by one community, the stronger one, against another, which will have far reaching repercussions. Especially, if as we suspect, the ship begins to quickly break up due to galvanic action and begins shedding material to our beach.
The welcome mat for new visitors? Who wants to welcome divers to a site we never chose, to an initiative we’ve had no part in planning, and which many of us have opposed for the best of reasons.
Avoca has a precious brand, and that brand is about to be trashed as we move under the shadow of this ship, our community henceforth known as the graveyard of the Adelaide.
Mike Rubbo
Avoca Resident