October 14th, 2021Your say
Cornish Hill
East Daylesford residents received letters on August 30 from the State Government (DELWP) advising that one acre of public parkland adjoining Cornish Hill Reserve was “surplus to government requirements” so would be rezoned to residential land and sold exclusively and privately to the few adjoining property owner/s. This sale includes a section of public walking track.
The state claims this sale “delivers a positive contribution to the township of Daylesford”. The opposite is true. The shire loses one acre of public parkland. Sale monies go to the state government, not Hepburn Shire.
Daylesford loses a heritage walking trail. Daylesford loses access to an historic rail embankment.
The Daylesford CFA and Cornish Hill Reserve both oppose the sale because the track is essential to protect public bushland and residents. Hepburn Shire supports the concerns of the CFA and residents. The state government failed to obtain the prior agreement of the Dja Dja Wurrung people as required.
Selling public parkland in regional towns to private owners as a cash cow is a very dangerous precedent. Please respond to the DELWP feedback line engage.vic.gov.au/glsac/tranche-30 by 5pm, Monday, October 11, 2021.
- Meyer Eidelson, Amanda Palmer, Daylesford
Transmission lines
I am fed up with the politicisation of the WVTNP by known opponents of renewable energy pretending to be concerned about our community.
Ripon’s MP Louise Staley has been exposed for her part in this debate by Jeremy Harper, Your Say, The Local, 13/09/2021. Louise knows this project was commissioned by the AEMO, a federally constituted and funded body.
But Ms Staley has a long record of standing against renewable energy. She voted against the Victorian Renewable Energy Target legislation in 2017. She has been reported as saying “targets for (renewable) energy will hurt Ripon” and she has announced “the Victorian Liberals will protect thousands…from Daniel Andrews’ ill-conceived WVTNP”.
Meanwhile we have scores of misleading signs on people’s properties, blaming Dan Andrews, or asking where various Labor politicians are. All based on lies perpetrated by Liberal Party politicians. And these signs are not cheap, with many being enamelled metal, corflute or printed canvas signs all up worth many thousands of dollars. From whence does the money come?
Or a crass sign adorning a hill over which a transmission line passes, and under which the same farmer who claims that the sky will fall if the WVTNP goes ahead is farming his fields. If it wasn’t so sad I would laugh.
Opposite this hill is a farm gate adorned with signage that tells the passer-by that the local economy will be devastated if the WVTNP is built. Farmers won’t be able to farm, tourists won’t come because of the transmissions lines, and we will have to “get up in morning ‘fore sun goes down and lick t’ road clean”.
So I have some questions for the people who proudly display these signs. Why haven’t people already stopped coming to our region since there are already plenty of transmission lines here? And why are you able to farm under these transmission lines, but not the WVTNP? And why do I have to smell bulls–t every time I go out?
- Ross Redwin, Creswick
