A decision on Bastion Point will now not be made until after the Christmas /New year season. In June this year, Hyder Consultants were engaged by the inter-departmental Bastion Point Project Control Board (the Board) to undertake a detailed assessment of the alternative option at the current site, in order to  produce a report using specific criteria that compares the alternative with Option 3b. Work commissioned by the consultants has just been completed, and the Board expects to present this material to ...

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Friends of Mallacoota (FoM), represented by the Environment Defenders Office (EDO) and barrister Sam Ure, have been successful in a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) case involving Freedom of Information (FOI). In October 2010, FoM, a key body in the Save Bastion Point Campaign, went to VCAT to obtain documents relating to Bastion Point from the Minister for Planning and the Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD). We argued that they had failed to conduct adequate searches in response ...

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The week beginning 27 September 2010 saw the distribution by newspaper and mail of 10,000 copies of a poster that shows two possibilities for Bastion Point; one that preserves its natural values and enhances ocean access and tourism - the other is Council's planned breakwater that removes beach from public access, creates a dredge-spoil dump, and creates dangerous ocean access into breaking waves.  See our Media Release,  hear spokesman Leo op den Brouw speaking on ABC radio, ...

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