More grounds for sacking Bass Coast Shire Councillors
There was an excellent response in this week's South Gippsland Sentinel Times newspaper to the outrageous nonsense last week from Cr Mat Morgan and the Save Westernport Woodlands cult. Rob Parsons from The Gurdies urges everyone to learn from the woodlands’ history LAST week’s Sentinel-Times’ report on Bass Coast Shire Council’s request to the Planning Minister for interim controls over the Western Port Woodlands did what most local coverage of this forest has done for some years. It presented the fight to protect the Woodlands as a fight that began recently. That framing has an appeal. It also erases a chapter of local history that everyone with an interest in these woodlands ought to know. The Woodlands were saved once already. It happened in the mid-1990s, under a Coalition state government, and it happened because the community here refused to accept anything less. The vehicle was the Sand Extraction Strategy Lang Lang to Grantville. Melbourne needed a long-term plan for sand...