A JUMP TO THE LEFT
The contribution from Mr. Richard Burnett ‘Pleasure short lived’ (Illawarra Mercury, Thursday, October 12) alleging the ABC has a Left Wing bias so excited me that I undertook a Google search of the ABC’s TV history.
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Frighteningly, my Google research suggests Mr Burnett, despite his enviable gift of insight, appears to have only found the tip of the iceberg of subversion present within the ABC.
My research suggests the ABC when introducing Play School in 1966 possibly did so in order to subliminally, implant Left thinking among its preschooler audience.
Is it also possible that in July of 1992, with the introduction of Bananas in Pyjamas the ABC did so with the intent to influence Gen Y’s attitude to “same sex partnerships”?
The intended purpose and effect of the ABC’s Almost Naked Animals and Arthur the Eight-Year-Old Aardvark is too radical to contemplate.
Combine all of the above then attach them to the ABC program Being Me and revolution may not be too far away.
The ABC clearly has exerted undue Left influence. So I am with you Mr Burnett.
Let you and I activate to have the ABC closed completely. then we can move onto public book burnings.
Barry Swan, Balgownie
A FANTASY WORLD
Huntley continues to be a saga of threats to valuable bushland, inappropriate development and lack of consistency with overall planning blueprints.
The Visionary Investment Group and Greg Norman both appear to be suffering from delusions that none of this matters ('Dapto to the fore' and 'Great white spark', 12 October).
A six-star resort high on the escarpment is completely out of keeping with Wollongong Council's Escarpment Management Plan.
A world class sporting academy is a far fetched idea when the basic golf course hasn't been built.
The Huntley bushland in this escarpment site may be reminiscent of the Daintree, but it is a particularly beautiful area of Illawarra rainforest and should be preserved.
The National Parks Association Illawarra Branch has for some years been concerned about a series of what we see as inappropriate proposals for this site.
The golf course and surrounding residential zoning was approved in 2011 despite being out of sequence with the state government's staged land releases for West Dapto.
It is some distance from the commercial centre of Dapto and not served by adequate roads let alone transport and other infrastructure.
The development cannot be sustainable due to its isolation, the lack of any community facilities or commercial centre planned.
It would be totally car-dependent, creating stress on surrounding roads and Dapto’s facilities. We see such a proposal as an undesirable precedent being outside the West Dapto planning process.
Though the golf course was approved, there appears to have been very little progress on it in the intervening period.
This raises the question of how serious Huntley Heritage's commitment to it was, and whether VIG will be any different.
We suspect that the company's strategy is merely to use it as a way to establish a housing development which would otherwise fall outside planning guidelines.
The new owners envisage extensions of the development footprint around the golf course, a large number of lots on the foothills that are not consistent with the LEP zonings as well as the grandiose private resort on the site of the mine administration buildings.
We are pleased that Wollongong Council did not approve the most recent housing and road proposal and trust they won't entertain these fantasies either.
Helen Wilson, Secretary, National Parks Association Illawarra Branch, Bulli