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Here's How You Can Make A Difference
1)
Please go the Resident's
Association Link
and take out a membership. The
contribution is very small but it will help to keep it going.
The future is pretty much in your hands right now. We
won't be
able to wake up a year from now and wish we had more safety and
amenity.
2)
Find out who your Federal Member is and write to him. There
is a pretty good chance it is Mr Mark Dreyfus or Mr Simon Crean. Go to the Facts
& Data & Links Page and check their contact
details. Write directly to Mr Anthony Albanese who is the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Also write to the opposition.
3)
Find out who your local Council Members are and write to them.
You can find this information from the City of
Kingston site
by clicking here. This link will also
give you their contact details. You can write to the
Mayor using this form.
Remember
that you will not be the first person to have complained so don't be
put off if you happen to get some official sounding response which is
supposed to make you go away. This is your
community, you live
here, you deserve proper answers.
If
you're still keen to do more . . .
4)
Write to your State Member of Parliament
5)
Write to the Prime Minister's office
6) Write to the local newspaper
Then
there are some things which will remind the people
who are
impacting our safety and amenity that we are not happy about it.
7)
Write to the Moorabbin Airport Corporation
8)
Write to flying schools at the Moorabbin Airport
When
you get to the end of the list if you are still unsatisfied start the
process again. Don't forget: "The squeaky wheel
gets the oil".
Don't
for a second accept the idea that you moved
here knowing that there was an airport nearby. The
Moorabbin Airport Corporation bought a cheap lease on a
huge
parcel of land also knowing fully well that they were part of a
community. It is reasonable to assume that a sensible balance
might exist between the needs of the community and the needs of a
general aviation facility.
You will hear comment about it being more dangerous on the
roads than in the air, which completely misses the fact that when you drive on the roads you make a conscious and
informed choice. When you go home to the sanctuary of your
home in the City of Kingston you have no choice about whether an aircraft is going to fly low
over your family. You can't keep your children home every day
because of the possibility that a 16 year old overseas student pilot is
going to crash near their school.
You
will also hear comment about
the airport having been there since before your arrival. This sort
of playground rationale misses the point completely. We are
an
evolving society; our views about the environment reflect a
heightened sense
of fairness and social and corporate responsibility. We put up
acoustic
barriers on freeways, save water, look after endangered animals,
recycle our
waste, built energy efficient buildings, ban smoking in offices, reduce
the
speed limit on our streets and ensure jet skis stay away from our beach
swimmers and even within aviation there are rules keeping planes away
from whales and breeding sea birds and national parks!!
In an enlightened age balance and fair play are
supposed to supersede ownership, bravado and territorialism.
This
is not a fanatical issue.
It's a real community problem, perhaps the single biggest
issue facing the City of Kingston right now.
