“Warnervale Airport public meeting a success.” Central Coast Business Review, September 1996.
This article provides a detailed pro-development account of the contentious 23 July 1996 public meeting concerning Warnervale Airport. Unlike some contemporary newspaper coverage of the same meeting, it explicitly presents the event as a successful demonstration of support for developing Warnervale as a regional airport.
The article is particularly valuable for recording the identities and roles of the principal pro-airport speakers, the stated technical limits of the proposed development, and the full wording and voting result of the motion calling for a delegation to approach NSW Premier Bob Carr. The narrow 194–183 result also illustrates how divided the community had become.
The account should be understood in the context of its strongly supportive framing. Its description of opponents as disrupting the meeting and its presentation of the development arguments as “the true facts” provide useful evidence not only about the airport proposal itself, but also about how supporters publicly presented their case during the highly polarised 1996 debate.
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