There’s one major problem though with Mr
Newman’s claim. He is ‘clearly recalling’
something that effectively never occurred.
Whilst Tate may well have told George Street
about his cruise policy in the weeks before
the election, all evidence suggests that he
conveniently saw to it that the public didn’t
get to know about it.
Despite around two out of every three
voters voting for other candidates, Tate’s
extravagant campaigning had him sneaking
over the line to take the mayoralty on the
back of his campaign stance to not support
commercial or private development on
The Spit or Wavebreak. Are Jeff Seeney or
Campbell Newman respecting that? They
have been formally made aware of the facts
many times, however quite to the contrary
and shockingly they are instead championing
a process to push one of the largest foreign
fire sales of prime public property in the
country’s history ... and it’s 100% based on
the well-proven-to-be-false mandate that
Tate continues to claim he has been handed
from the people.
We can now fast forward to today and a
stack of goal post shifting in the night has
gone down between then and now. To say
that this is one big unprecedented and
tangled web of misinformation and deception
is an understatement, with plenty of to and
fro between Tate and the community groups
leading the fight to preserve the public area.
We are on the verge of losing our prime public
marine park, seeing a lifetime of perpetual
large-scale dredging and what is essentially