If all or part of a revamped tourist information centre is leased out to the private sector, will it have permission to promote gun sales and the recreational killing of animals?
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Why not, when the annual HuntFest, an approved event claimed to benefit the town at the Sports and Recreation Centre next door, has already been given the go-ahead to do so by a majority of councillors.
Mr Burnside wants “more bang for the buck” and promotion of guns would literally achieve that.
Local and overseas safaris, stuffed animal heads, postcards with the new hunters’ logo “Narooma Home of HuntFest”, and toy guns for the kiddies could be a regular money-spinner for the shire.
Not impossible to imagine when you consider how, in just two years, a photographic competition has morphed into gun sales, promotion of local and overseas safaris, a portable rifle range, and an expansion into nearby NATA Oval.
Too bad if the community doesn’t want anything that encourages gun proliferation.
With only three exceptions, Eurobodalla Shire Council councillors forge ahead with their own money-making agenda, regardless of the environment and the welfare of the people they were elected to serve.
Don’t let it happen!
Susan Cruttenden, Dalmeny
