I need YOUR help to save my local nude beach!
Ok, so pretty please bear with me for a couple of minutes as I need your help on this one 🙏🏽 help me save my local nude beach 🙏🏽
Hi nudies!
Ok, so pretty please bear with me for a couple of minutes as I need your help on this one 🙏🏽
On 30 August 2024, my beloved local nude beach, Tyagarah Clothing-Optional Beach, is set for closure 😭
So, I need YOUR help NOW! myself and the naturist community here are urgently looking to lobby the Minister responsible for this matter, Minister Penny Sharpe, and get her eyes on the matter. We need her urgent attention and intervention.
So, we need to bombard her offices and staff with emails on the matter. We need her to know that this matter MATTERS!
So, I and the local naturist community would be so grateful if you could take a couple of minutes to send the below templated email to the email addresses I have provided (below).
You do not need to be local or have even been to Tyagarah to send this email. Even if you live across the other side of the world, we need your support on this. We just need these inboxes flooded with emails on the matter to get their attention first and foremost!!!
Obviously, the more emails they receive, the more urgent and pressing they will realise this issue is. So pretty please send ASAP…and remember to sign off with your own name. Email and email addresses below (and please feel free to ‘Bcc’ me at jessa@thenudeblogger.com (emphasis on ‘Bcc’!)).
Thank you in advance for your support on this. I am truly grateful 🙏🏽
EMAIL TO MINISTER AND RELEVANT CONTACTS: PLEASE SEND ASAP!
SUBJECT: TYAGARAH BEACH - we deserve a clothing-optional beach in the Byron Shire!
MINISTER, MINISTERIAL AND LOCAL MP EMAIL ADDRESSES (copy and paste).
penny.sharpe@minister.nsw.gov.au, office@sharpe.minister.nsw.gov.au, penny.sharpe@parliament.nsw.gov.au, anthony.baker@minister.nsw.gov.au, tamsin.lloyd@minister.nsw.gov.au, julie.sprake@minister.nsw.gov.au, ElectorateOffice.Ballina@parliament.nsw.gov.au, Tamara.Smith@parliament.nsw.gov.au,
Cc:
anthony.lean@environment.nsw.gov.au, mia.garrido@environment.nsw.gov.au, kim.curtain@environment.nsw.gov.au, atticus.fleming@environment.nsw.gov.au, naomi.stephens@environment.nsw.gov.au, owen.walker@environment.nsw.gov.au
EMAIL TEMPLATE (copy and paste):
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Dear The Hon. Penny Sharpe MLC,
I am writing to you about Tyagarah Clothing-Optional Beach (COB) and its imminent closure on 30 August 2024.
Minister, I ask that you review and reverse NPWS’ decision. And if you choose to uphold their decision, then I request that you intervene to keep the beach open until an alternative location is secured.
With almost 8,000 signatures on a petition in favour of ‘Saving Tyagarah’, there is clearly a huge demand for a legal COB in the Byron Shire.
Given the time-sensitive nature of the issue, this is a matter of urgency. Given that NPWS and Council have been unwilling to support our naturist community in securing an alternative location in the six months since NPWS and Council blindsided us with this undemocratic decision back in February, this matter now needs to be elevated to your authority and we need you to intervene NOW.
Despite the naturist community’s pleas for community consultation and countless attempts at engagement with relevant stakeholders, all that we’ve been given is a perfunctory 2 hour ‘stakeholder workshop’, back in March, where NOTHING was achieved. This overall lack of procedural fairness is unjust and undemocratic.
Tyagarah was designated ‘clothing-optional’ in 1998. That is a span of over 25 years that a community has been built here! And now, with no regard and barely any consultation or legitimate facilitation, an entire community is being displaced and blatantly discriminated against. This is not good enough.
If we lose Tyagarah, our next closest legal COB is a 600km drive away, on the central coast of NSW! This is absurd and outrageous! Especially when you look at countries such as Spain, who has over 400 nude beaches, and France, with over 150! We’re only asking for ONE in the region!
I, along with many others, support a clothing-optional beach in the Byron Shire. We deserve either the reinstatement of our current COB, OR a feasible, safe and accessible alternative.
I really hope that we can show the world that Byron Bay is still that progressive, tolerant and diverse little coastal town it’s always been famed for.
Sincerely,
[Your name/s],
]