Subject: Fw: Saving Point Nepean E-letter No 5 Dear friend and colleague,
If you are 'seeing red' over Federal Government Plans to lease Point = Nepean to commercial interests, it is still not too late to make your = views known. If you can, grab your family and few friends and enjoy an open day at = Point Nepean (free admission) with entertainment, some bell - ringing = and plenty more information on how we may yet save this National = treasure as a National Park. This Sunday, 5th October (see below). Don't forget to wear your brightest red clothes! Kind thanks and best wishes, Neil Taylor. 56787406. ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Smyth <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:03 PM Subject: Saving Point Nepean E-letter No 5 Saving Point Nepean E-letter No 5 One National Park for all of Point Nepean Ring the Bell Rally 25-Metre Range Point Nepean 5 October 2003 2.00pm On the eve of the closing of tenders (6 October) for the lease of 90 hectares of Point Nepean, the Victorian National Parks Association, the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and many other groups and individuals will be gathering at Point Nepean. We will be ringing bells to celebrate the special natural and cultural heritage values of Point Nepean: 19th and 20th century heritage buildings of the Quarantine Station and breathtaking coast and seascapes. But we will also be ringing bells to send out a distress signal, a warning of the serious threat to Point Nepean from the Commonwealth Government's proposed leasing arrangements. There will be a big bell for all of us to ring, but please bring along your own as well! If it were to go ahead, the Commonwealth Government's leasing proposal for Point Nepean would be the worst possible outcome for our priceless heritage. It would disintegrate the ownership, management and control of Point Nepean's heritage; threaten the integrity, fabric and spatial association of the Quarantine Station buildings; exempt developers from public and local and state planning schemes and regulations; avoid the protection of new national heritage legislation that comes into force in 04. Point Nepean could be leased to commercial developers for five-star hotels and other developments as early as 1 November -- that's only a month away! Are you seeing red? On a day when we are sounding the red alert for Point Nepean, please wear something red: a scarf, a jumper, a jacket, a hat, a skirt, some slacks? On Sunday 5 October please visit Point Nepean, absorb its wonder and majesty, hear informed speakers, and find out what is proposed and how you can help SAVE POINT NEPEAN. Please bring your friends and family, bring a picnic, bring a bell -- AND WEAR RED! How to get to the Ring the Bell Rally To get to the 25-metre Range (Melways Map 156 B2) follow the signs after the Visitor Centre (Melways Map 156 C2) at the Mornington Peninsula National Park entrance. The 25-metre range is approximately two kilometres from the Visitor Centre, with Gunners Cottage car park another kilometre on. Car parking is also available at the Visitor Centre. Please Note: Park Open Day The rally happens to coincide with a Parks Victoria Open Day for the Point Nepean section of the Mornington Peninsula National Park. This means that entrance to the park will be free, there will also be no charge for the trolley transporter to the tip of Point Nepean, and there will be ranger-led interpretive walks, rockpool rambles, face-painting, a sausage sizzle and roving entertainers between 10 and 2.00pm. So why not make a day of it, visit one of Victoria's very special places and at the same time help the campaign for its protection. All of Point Nepean must be an integrated national park for all Australians for all time! No sale! No lease! NB: The rally and the Open Day do not include entry on to the Commonwealth land at the Quarantine Station. Chris Smyth Marine Campaign Officer Victorian National Parks Association Level 3, 60 Leicester Street Carlton VIC 3053 ph: 03 9341 6512 fax: 03 9347 5199 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
