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[Upper Harbour View]

[Stair Window]

[The Forest]

[Union Lawn]

[CBD Park]

[Second Lawn]

[Iris House]

[Garden Trees]

[Graythwaite]

write now to save Graythwaite

Please write a personal letter to The Prime Minister

If you need some ideas look here for text you can use [word document format | right click to download]

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



Other actions that you can take include:

  1. informing yourself as much as possible about Graythwaite, its history and the threats to it.
  2. talking to your friends and neighbours about it to widen the circle of interest.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. adding your details to our email list so we can keep you up to date and informed of critical developments.
  6.  
    Kevin Rudd,
    Parliament House
    CANBERRA ACT 2600
    Or go to his website to leave a mail message click here
    then click on 'continue' at the bottom of the page to go to the mail page
     
    Alan Griffin
    Minister for Veterans Affairs
    Parliament House
    CANBERRA ACT 2600
    email Alan Griffin
    Senator John Faulkner
    Special Minister of State
    Parliament House
    CANBERRA ACT 2600
    or email Senator Faulkner
     
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Points that you might like to consider in writing to them might include:

  1. Graythwaite is unique and priceless part of our heritage.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. That you are totally opposed to any development at all on the site and want it returned to its original splendour.
  5. That the whole of Graythwaite must remain in public ownership.


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