“Support Warnervale Airport.” The Sun Weekly, 18 July 1996.
This advertisement documents organised public support for the proposed development of Warnervale Airport during the intense political controversy of 1996. Rather than being a newspaper report or opinion letter, it is campaign material intended to mobilise supporters to attend a public meeting.
The advertisement frames the proposed regional airport principally in terms of local jobs, economic growth and confidence. It also indicates that the organisers intended to address some of the principal issues surrounding the airport debate through speakers covering aviation, aircraft noise, property values and legal matters.
Its call to “Send message to Bob Carr” demonstrates the explicitly political character of the meeting. Published only weeks after the NSW Parliament passed legislation restricting development at Warnervale Airport, the advertisement provides evidence that supporters of airport expansion continued organising publicly against the restrictions.
The clipping is particularly useful alongside contemporary newspaper reports and letters because it records the campaign itself rather than subsequent reporting about it.
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