Residents who oppose development

I was sitting here tonite, quietly minding my own beezwax, when I received an email from someone I know. We live in an area of Australia that has very high unemployment, major transport issues & fairly undeveloped.

For things to change, we must change.

The email I received was opposing a 4 storey development in Huskisson, NSW, together with some very classy beachfront 2 level townhouses. They were not only opposing development, they were asking everyone they knew to send letters & emails to our councillors to voice their opinions. They even put the words needed into a paragraph so anyone could cut & paste, attach their names, and send it to the councillors..... Yep, nothing wrong with that.

But what gets under my skin, what really makes my blood boil are the people who bought into these areas in the first place and expected that no change would ever happen. Why, when these people were happy to buy an allotment of previously subdivided land, do they feel they have the right to dictate to other people doing it? Ok..... I'm not silly, I understand that people feel they have the right... they pay their rates.... yada yada..... But do these people ever give a thought to how the original land owners may have felt? The indigenous australians who had that land just taken away from them?

Cmon, wake up you lot who are happy to say "not in my backyard"!

If anyone has travelled between Albion Park & Batemans Bay, you know the roads need serious upgrading. The unemployment in the Shoalhaven is one of the highest in Australia. There are no proper bus services for people to get to and from work, that's if they can get a job in the first place. The population is ageing, during peak seasons, the suburbs burst at the seams and can barely cope with the influx of tourists. By revamping and building new, we are going to give local people jobs, security & a better life. We can't all live in a glass house & ignore change.....

That's my gripe for now....

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