‘Locals per se’?? WTF does that mean?

And what about the Nippers surf lifesaving carnival and the Rotary Club … legitimate rhetorical devices do you think? I’ll stick to my interpretation that it was a deliberate attempt to misrepresent Wooyung as some kind of good old Aussie values community full of honest hard-working folk like you see on tele.

King’s post was about gated communities and their social implications, as was mine; not about the merits of coastal development.

BTW as a matter of fact, not opinion, lots of people buy properties for $500,000 - 750,000 and most suburbs have them for sale at that price. I’m sure the Labor Party would happily acknowledge that. Lots of other people can’t afford a house at all of course but that doesn’t detract from the point I was making in the post, which seems to have escaped you.

I think King wasn’t being literal about ‘Kenny’ but was talking about locals per se.

There’s nothing wrong with developing parts of the coast. No where does King say that development is wrong. It’s the nature of the development. His argument is based in small ‘l’ liberalism but I’d like to hear a developer’s point of view, especially the ‘multiplier effect’.

“One of the biggest changes that has occurred in Australia over the last 50 years is that the majority of the population have comparatively huge (on a global scale) incomes. One result is that lots of people can afford a house in almost any suburb that you care to name.”

I fell down and howled with laughter at that last sentence. Are you in the pay of the Libs?

David Retallic
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