Quote The Age:
“But, guess what? No one in Melbourne cares. Up there in the big smoke, Melburnians are so used to the murky brown filth of the Yarra mouth — and the appalling state of the city’s beaches — that dredging up a century of toxic sludge and throwing it into the aesthetic Southbank is perfectly fine.
Truth is, Melburnians have never valued the bay as an asset. Because, in the end, Melbourne is a port city and port cities aren’t about aesthetics. They’re about business and infrastructure and Melburnians — in their silent complicity in backing this project — have turned back the clock 100 years.
Hello Tracey, I’m Carl!, and I’m a Melburnian. Some might argue that on top of that, I’m an environmentalist. Even known to lean a little left. You know, like yourself.
Silent complicity? Ever heard of Blue Wedges?
Of course you bloody have, you wrote about us in the very same article you just slagged us off in..
So anyways, when you next get the urge to speak on my behalf, either get it right, or shut the fuck up.
...read me... 
January 22, 2008 at 8:27 am |
And why haven’t the Blue Wedges pushed the danger of an Exxon Valdez disaster? Captain Frank Hart, a former Harbour Master, argues that i’t’s not if but when it will occur.” See the doco, The Last Good Summer. Blue wedges did have some copies but they’ve been intimidated by the Port of Melbourne Authority into disregarding Hart’s evidence. It would seem ludicrous that such an event would happen. However as an average of three ships a year have been grounded on the great sands since 1974, it would be reasonable to expect that the larger vessels will also and they will rip their hulls on the rocks there. Hey, and the pilots that used the new navigation equipment that will be aboard the new ships all grounded. Why hasn’t that been shouted by those of you who imagine they walk on water.