Graythwaite | Actions you can take

Action

write now to save Graythwaite

Please write a personal letter to the Premier

If you need some ideas look here for text you can copy [word document format] The Premier

If you have the energy please keep on writing to the Minister for Planning, the Opposition Leader and the Shadow Minister for Health - all addresses are below.

If you don't have the time to write but care about the future of Graythwaite,
just click on the email addresses below and add your name to the text.

Please don't put this off

If you care at all about Graythwaite, act now as we will not get a second chance to save our heritage parkland.

Other actions that you can take include:

informing yourself as much as possible about Graythwaite, its history and the threats to it.

talking to your friends and neighbours about it to widen the circle of interest.

visiting the gardens, which are accessible from the Union St entrance, walking around the property and developing a greater appreciation of just how great a miracle it is that such a peaceful place still exists so close to the North Sydney CBD.

joining the Graythwaite Gardening Group that meets on the site at 9.30am every Sunday (8.30am in the summer months). All tools are provided as is morning tea. If you are not up to gardening, come along to morning tea (around 11am) and have a chat anyway.

adding your details to our email list so we can keep you up to date and informed of critical developments.

The Hon. Morris Iemma, MP
Premier of NSW
Level 40, Governor Macquarie Tower
1 Farrer Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000 thepremier@www.nsw.gov.au
phone: (02) 9228 5239
fax: (02) 9228 3935

The Hon. Frank Sartor MP
Minister for Planning
Level 31, Governor Macquarie Tower
1 Farrer Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000 office@sartor.minister.nsw.gov.au
phone: (02) 9228 4700
fax: (02) 9228 4711

Ms Reba Meagher
Minister for Health
Governor Macquarie Tower
1 Farrer Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000 reba.office@meagher.minister.nsw.gov.au
phone: (02) 9228 3555
fax: (02) 9228 3585

Mr Barry O'Farrell
Leader of the Opposition
Parliament House,
Macquarie Street,
SYDNEY NSW 2000 LOP@parliament.nsw.gov.au
phone: (02) 9487 8588
fax: (02) 9487 8550

Mrs Jillian Skinner
Member for North Shore
Shadow Minister for Health
Suite 3 Bangalla House
65 Military Road
Neutral Bay NSW 2089 northshore@parliament.nsw.gov.au
phone: (02) 9909 2594
fax: (02) 9909 2654

Points that you might like to consider in writing to them might include:

Graythwaite is unique and priceless part of our heritage.

That it has been dreadfully neglected by the Department of Health despite the promise that Premier Holman made to the Dibbs family when it was given to the State that it would be admisitered in a manner worthy of the great and generous spirit in which the gift was made.

That the gardens of Graythwaite are just as important as the mansion and that it is the combination of the two that makes this such a unique place.

That you are totally opposed to any development at all on the site and want it returned to its original splendour.

That the whole of Graythwaite must remain in public ownership.