Sydney’s headlands - storybook of our Nation

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The headlands of Sydney harbour are such a special place for Australians because of three very important values. 

We have a pristine environment which has been protected here and we can continue to protect that. No other city has this. This is truly unique and in a city that is now five million people and growing, these environmental values become more and more important. 

Apart from that, the military values that are here are nowhere else in this country. This is the earliest military establishment and it's continually occupied by the military. We learn about our history, about our past, about the wars that our men fought. Many of them, if they didn't train here, they sailed through the heads past this headland, past North Head as they went to distant shores to fight our battles.

To remember our past we understand our future. 

How lucky are we too to have the intact Indigenous values here. The middens, the caves, the rock shelters, the carvings, the fact that they occupied these lands for more than 37,000 years. And we can be here today and we can understand and we can learn. 

These lands are the storybook of the Nation. It is absolutely imperative that they be protected.

Jill L'Estrange
Jill L'Estrange
President, Headland Preservation Group
Jill L'Estrange is the President of the Headland Preservation Group


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