It may be too late to call the last Council to account but it’s not too late for the new Councillors and the existing State Government to stop the privatisation of public parkland.
Newcastle desperately needs investment money in its commercial areas but it doesn’t need commercial areas in its public parklands.
Residents will have to join with RAID : a coalition of community groups up and down the coast in their planned protest rally 19 October in Hyde Park Sydney against inappropriate development.
Doug Lithgow
