IF the state government determines it has no further public use for public land, then may I suggest we return that land to the original (and dispossessed) owners?
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The carpark causing immense community concern was arbitrarily confiscated from the Aboriginal peoples of this area, put to various public use, and now we (the public, through our state government) propose selling it to a commercial enterprise for profit all around - excepting of course the real owners.
The same principle should have applied to Barangaroo and any other publicly designated land in Australia deemed no longer of interest to the public authorities controlling.
We are overdue on our economic debt to the Indigenous peoples of Australia.
The Birpai people should, of course, feel free to make whatever use of that land they may choose, just as we all do with our own land.
Chris Rivers, Port Macquarie
