Letters to the Port Stephens Examiner: July 29

Updated July 27 2021 - 1:19pm, first published 11:56am

Sacred site should be registered

SIGNIFICANT SITE: Wanda Wetlands was identified as a sacred Women's site in the Mambo Wanda Wetlands Plan of Management.
SIGNIFICANT SITE: Wanda Wetlands was identified as a sacred Women's site in the Mambo Wanda Wetlands Plan of Management.

A Port Stephens Council spokesperson confirmed to the Examiner ('Wanda Wetland woes', NEWS, July 15) that Wanda Wetlands was identified as a sacred Women's site in the Mambo Wanda Wetlands Plan of Management (POM) adopted by the council on February 28, 2006.

If however, the council had a real commitment to meeting its obligations in respect of these vital heritage and environmental lands, the funding for its upkeep would be more than $3500, and they would have responded to Ms Carol Ridgeway Bisset's request, in 2012, to identify the area as a Registered Aboriginal Place.

Since its lodgement, both the Mambo Wanda Wetlands (MWW) Landcare Group and the MWW Conservation Group, have written to the council and the Minister for Energy and the Environment in support of this action.

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