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Thank you for the subtle page layout in CCN393 demonstrating the Member for Terrigal’s double standard on marine seafloor destruction: FOR inshore dredging and AGAINST offshore mining. Dredging in North Broken Bay (which is not “Ettalong”) will have significant adverse area with listed threatened marine species adjacent Bouddi National Park. of a suitable size for this estuary, are still using the channel.

Costing half a million dollars of public money every couple of years, the State Government should allocate this expenditure to other more broadly beneficial demands (eg. affordable housing, road replacements).

Private ferry passengers may have assumed that humans can control a volatile and much-valued natural environment through dredging at disproportionate public cost. However, they have compelling arguments seem to be that we should vote for the Voice because it is polite and good manners or if we don’t vote for the Voice, that means that we are some kind of evil, morally corrupt fiends.

To repeat Linda’s final words, I say, we need action from the Government for our Aboriginal people, not a Voice.

Email, Jun 5 John King, San Remo

Patonga option. More sensitivity to the North Broken Bay environment is needed.

Neither repeated dredging nor offshore mining for nonrenewable energy is sustainable.

Email, Jun 13