Rosalie Park is the latest to join a growing list of precious social and environmental assets threatened by state sponsored urban vandalism.
Is there nothing too valuable to escape the bulldozer?
We seem to have a crisis of leadership, with state and federal members following the short-term development dollar, excluding all other considerations; particularly our future health and well-being.
Federal member Julie Bishop has not even acknowledged my calls for debate or discussion, preferring stunts with cane toads and "stare offs", rather than addressing serious long term issues that face our society locally and nationally.
Health is not just about hospital beds. It is about our urban design, about water and food quality and security, the integrity of our communities and our environment, how we treat our neighbours and our work-life balance.
If we keep voting for people who are just part of a party machine then we will have no one else to blame when our green spaces are car parks, our biodiversity is in a museum, when our mineral wealth is squandered and we have nothing to show for it and when our marine and land environments are so degraded they can no longer sustain us.
If we want our children to enjoy a clean and healthy environment, and an equitable society, then we are running out of time. We need to change course now. And that starts at the ballot box.
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