An open letter to Ms Liesl Tesch, Member for Gosford

Guringai are an Aboriginal tribe of the Central Coast and recognised as such by senior academics at Sydney University, Christ Church, Gosford, and other Central Coast organisations.

Guringai are registered Native Title claimants, thwarted in the last sign off by bureaucratic hurdles. Guringai wish to protect our land for all.

Your refusal to acknowledge their concern that approx 15 hectares of culturally, and environmentally significant bushland in Kariong will be trashed for new housing suggests you are pro-development to the exclusion of anything else.

You are the current Member for Gosford so it is your job to protect the natural heritage of the Central Coast, not to stand idly by while it is trashed.

The Guringai/Darkinoong elders are strongly opposed to this development. New housing can be put somewhere else that will not profane the sacred.

Is a vote for Liesl a vote for environmental destruction?

Our natural heritage is vital to our wellbeing and voters want to keep it.

Authorised by Aunty Colleen Fuller & Gab McIntosh, 2 Dandaloo St, Kariong, 2250