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Sydney - North Head / The Gap POM review 16-Dec-2010 At 5:21:14 PM Philtown

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Hot tip from someone who does this stuff for a living:

Consultation is about Govt being obliged to let you have your say. They don't have to agree with your opinions. Special interest group's opinions won't count for shit unless there's pressure on the POM authors from above.

Approach it from a number of ways:

1. Request that submissions are responded to (they have to prepare a Submissions Report).
2. Get your local member and the ministers involved. Kevin Greene (sport), George Souris (shadow for sport), Frank Sartor (environment - NPWS falls under him), Pru Goward (shadow environment).
3. Sydney Rockies, as our peak body, should lobby around proper process, equal access for all park users and the example of the blue mountains experience.
4. Push for removing climbing as a prohibited activity and leaving it as an uncontrolled, uncondoned one.