International outdoor equipment and clothing company Patagonia has featured the Bastion Point Campaign in their northern hemisphere summer 2010 Surfwear catalogue.  Bastion Point is just one of the waves listed as ‘endangered’ by Save the Waves, and other waves in danger of destruction are also featured in the catalogue. Steve Wadsworth’s photo of Bastion Point will also be used in Patagonia’s US stores for their summer 2010 surfwear campaign.

Please download a reduced version (5 MB) of the Patagonia Catalogue here, which contains the Bastion Point article (p26), and other salient articles about losing surfbreaks.

Take note of the ‘Lessons Learned’ on Dana Point in California. Surfers were told that an artificial reef would replace the break – to make way for a breakwater harbour construction to provide ‘affordable boating’.  Neither promise materialised.

And visit the Patagonia surfwear site to check out their surf gear!

Shadow Planning Minister Matthew Guy visited Mallacoota on 29 March 2010 for a fact finding mission on the Bastion Point issue. Around 200 community members came to demonstrate their opposition to the Bastion Point harbour development. Please see our Media Release, and click on the article headline to see photos by Michael Rayner.

The Supreme Court hearing that was to occur on the 16th March has been rescheduled for the 10th May. This change of date is due to availability of legal counsel. See also Madden Decision Taken to Supreme Court.

The Windsor Hotel redevelopment document accidentally leaked by Minister Madden’s media advisor (25 Feb 2010) reveals a strategy to undermine an advisory committee report, and manipulate a community consultation process. As you can see in the full Madden Media Plan, it also contains the line ‘ March 16 and 17 Bastian (sic) Point decision in Supreme [...]

Following January’s hugely successful exhibition and auction in Mallacoota of Norm Neilson’s Bastion Point photographs of Bastion Point, Norm has held an equally successful exhibition and auction in Bairnsdale.
The event made sales of around $10,000, and has helped greatly in spreading the word about what is happening at Bastion Point.
The exhibition made the front page [...]

An exhibition and auction of Norm Neilson’s photos of Bastion Point was held at Mallacoota’s Mudbrick Pavilion from 21 to 23 January 2010, culminating in an auction event.
Over 400 people visited the exhibition. All of the 42 works were sold, resulting in over $10,000 being made for the campaign. See our media release here.
Norm’s works were also shown [...]

Visitors to Mallacoota over January 2010 will have noticed the large number of homes with signs expressing the community opposition to breakwalls, dredges, and beach roads at Bastion Point.
We know the signs have alerted many visitors to what is happening at Bastion Point.
Even the East Gippsland Shire Council is interested – an officer was spotted driving [...]

The case of Friends of Mallacoota Inc. versus Minister for Planning, and Minister for Environment and Climate Change has been fixed for trial in the Supreme Court on 16 March 2010 for two days.
Members of the Public are welcome to attend.
See Madden Decision Taken to Supreme Court for more detail.

Following East Gippsland Shire Council’s decision to proceed with design of the Option 3b breakwater and road along the beach, it has convened the ‘Mallacoota Ocean Access Boat Ramp Community Advisory Committee’, MOABRCAC. After much deliberation, we felt that there could be some benefit to being on this committee. We have written to Council expressing [...]

Despite the Independent Panel recommendations and current legal action in the Supreme Court, East Gippsland Shire Council has called for tenders for the design phase of the Option 3b breakwater and over-beach road. An update will be posted when further details are known.