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Corrupt Politicians and Corporate Beach
Thieves
Takeover Coogee Beach - Mum and Devon go protesting! |
 Can
you believe that in this age the corporations and politicians
are actually STEALING the beach!
How many times have you not spoken up when you know that
something is fundamentally wrong? How many times have you
compromised yourself, the community, or the environment for
a higher paying salary? |
 If
you KNOW that what you are doing is not forwarding the growth
of humanity but in fact is destroying that which is so precious
then for BE BRAVE enough to admit it.
Between Cockburn's Mayor Stephen Lee, WA's premier Mr Gallop,
and Australand's Corporate cronies, the people of Western
Australia have LOST one of the most beautiful beaches anywhere
around Perth all because of... you guessed it... MONEY. |
 Maybe
these people really believe they are doing a good thing, I
trust that at soem level this is true. But to landfill a beautiful
piece of the world's natural ocean for commerce, when there
are so many other places to build here in WA seems shallow.
We seem to be selling out many of our propetires and bsuiensses
to neighbouring Singapore. |
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 The
Coogee Coastal Action Coalition, the people who were trying
to SAVE the beach, were actually brought to bankruptcy by
the same thieving beurocrats and corporates.
What is the world coming to, we must take a STAND.
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 Together
the 'launch' of Port Coogee was marred by chants and booos
thanks to these brave and uncommon people.
These people do not want these beautiful sand dunes pushed
into the ocean.
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This is the beach where I take my little boy...
no more will it be here, Darshan will never see it. |
This is the last moments of our family life on Coogee beach,
as we have known it for the last 6 years.
Now all there is to see is a giant railing adn
bulldozers.
I can't even bring myself to drive past there.
600 new houses, some out into the ocean...a a myriad of other
unnecesary facilties in the name of progress. |
Sorry to all the underwater life, to the shipwreck
ruins, to the natural habitat.
I apologise to the water, to our beloved ocean
for the shortsighted behaviour of the human race.
Coogee Beach, Western Australia.
We love you and always will. |
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| I walked with my baby today in my arms to the beach.
It was so beautiful there, the sun was setting.
I thought to myself how wonderful it would be to watch my
son grow up on these shores. The divine shores of Western
Australia. This country is such a fair one and the city
of Perth, certainly a city of lights!
My husband said "This is where the new buildings will start.
Where our beach is and all the way to the left will be about
400 houses. Out into the sea more houses and moorings
will me built. Our beach will be no more." My
heart seized. I could not believe that I could be looking
at something here, in a few years time, which could never
surpass the natural beauty of this special place right now.
I thought that I would not be able to share meditation on
the beach with my son as he grows up, or that we couldn't
take him swimming in the morning, my heart yearned for missed
moments on our friendship beach. I thought about all
those days in the future that I would be stopped from being
here. There is so much SPACE here in Western Australia,
there is no need to build over our beaches. It is so wonderful
to look at it on an atlas. The space is vast.
We have so much land and a small portion of shoreline.
For all the missed memories and from my second son who will
never slide on those dunes, will never dip his toes in that
beautiful water, I find it hard now to have positive thoughts
towards the perpetrators of this, but I must try.
In all love and light
Tila Clark
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