Your democracy at work in Stockton Bight

In God we trust all others pay cash. Featuring historic analogue video footage from 1993 of Port Stephens Council deliberating on the fate of coastal heath lands earmarked for the inappropriate Fern Bay housing estate in southern Stockton Bight, Australia. Attempts by the local community to have a say over their own neighbourhood prove ultimately futile as vested interests trump environmental concerns. Nature is the biggest loser in this unseemly process of land rezoning. It has been estimated that the corruption turnover occurring in Australian land use decision making is bigger than the illicit drug trade.
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