http://www.theage.com.au/nsw/tony-abbott-faces-liberal-revolt-over-middle-head-aged-care-home-20141107-11ism7.html

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott is facing open revolt in Liberal Party branches in his own electorate over his support for a deal that will see a privately owned, for-profit aged care home built on public parklands overlooking Sydney Harbour at Middle Head. Rank and file members of the Mosman and Balmoral branches will protest at the Liberal state conference on Saturday over what they see as a betrayal of long-term promises by Mr Abbott and other senior federal ministers to protect the heritage of the former Defence-owned site known as 10 Terminal. The naval heritage buildings of 10 Terminal will be extensively rebuilt to create an 89-bed retirement home known as The Cove. High-end aged care facilities elsewhere on Sydney's lower north shore are charging upfront bonds of up to $2.6 million per unit to join. The minutes of the trust's September board meeting reveal it could take a cut of "any premium" generated by the operators of  the Cove transferring the lease to another party. The decision of the trust to hand publicly owned land to an aged care operator has angered locals, including Mr Abbott's sister, Jane Vincent. The largest Liberal branch in Mr Abbott's Warringah electorate, Mosman, has passed a motion calling on the government to reject the development and instead  "work with the community towards a truly adaptive use of the present buildings to preserve them and ensure the buildings, site, and harbour foreshores are accessible and available to the public for generations to come". The motion was supported by 68 of  the 70 attendees. Branch member and Mosman deputy mayor Roy Bendall said: "Considering that [the development] was being assessed by our own federal colleagues, it was quite a show of strength." He recalled Mr Abbott's promise in opposition not to let developers take the parklands, and his pledge to stop  the "Keating government's proposed sale of former military land around Sydney Harbour". In a speech in April 2012, Mr Abbott said: "Largely at my instigation, the Howard government committed more than $115 million to the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust to preserve the natural and built heritage of places like North Head and Middle Head." Mr Bendall said "something has gone astray" at the trust, which is required by law to protect the heritage of buildings and "maximise public access to Trust Land". In a letter sent to a Mosman constituent on October 24, Mr Abbott said the trust's plan had undergone "extensive environmental assessments and public consultation" and that he supported the development.

Prime land for the rich to live long in the surroundings they deserve.....The peasants of course will no longer have access to this site as you would expect in an elitist society like Australia.....Promises mean nothing when money is concerned!!!

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The man is an absolute idiot - every bit of public land, little of it as there is, around Sydney Harbour is sacred and not up for their grubby paws to sell off - this furphy just has to be a distraction from some real issue...

These bastards would sell their mother's grave for high rise if the market would bear it... maybe we should just put up a high income nursing home at Rookwood.... dig up all the resters and leaners there and put 'em in the ground out near - say - Orange...

The War Memorial would make a great privatised industry... think of the billions that could be recouped with a hefty entry fee!

Close Mascot and put up high rise, all that lovely seaside property to sell off.... shift the airport to Goulburn or somewhere and put in a fast train (too costly that last)....

How about we sell of Kirribilli House and turn it into a casino?  There's a dollar to be made....  (the name's Bondage... James Bondage.. and it's shaken, not stirred.  I see you handle your cards well, Scipione.. perhaps we could try a hand of baccarat or two... see who has the longer staying power, eh?)....

("Rent Seeking") Looking after the big end of town again!

Maybe the better alternative is to put up Houso accommodation and rent it cheap at subsidised rates - to share the view around.. you know - some thirty storey complexes and a few two storey halfway houses for criminals, paedophiles, drug users and such - a nice re-entry into ordinary life....

That's go down well with Mozzman council.... though I suppose they'd prefer 'their' kind of people instead.... hoons in purple cars with noisy exhausts might startle the horses...

Wonder if theylve done an OH&S Audit in the site?

Lots of steep cliffs in that area....

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When asked about her leadership aspirations Julie Bishop said: 'I'm very much part of our team, and looking forward to remaining so for some time to come.'

Julie Bishop has not ruled out leadership ambitions after a recent poll put her equal with Prime Minister Tony Abbott in the preferred Liberal Party leader stakes.

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