Residents of the coastal village Hastings Point in northern New South Wales demonstrated nude on March 11 after Tweed Council ignored their submission to wait for a ruling by the NSW Land and Environment Court before approving further developments on the estuary. The residents have made a video of their nude protest which is available on You Tube.
The Tweed Shire is being run by administrators after the council was sacked for corruption in 2005 following a report by Maurice Daly of the Independent Commission against Corruption. The Daly Report identified breaches of the Land and Environment regulations by council and council staff, allowing illegal developments to go ahead and overturning or ignoring decisions of the Land and Environment Court. The naked residents say that the practice has continued under the administrators. The council meeting of March 10th decided to allow a development to go ahead despite the fact that it is currently before the Land and Environment Court.
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