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Little Congwong Beach Campaign

Group convened in October 2005 by Gerald Ganglbauer

“Little Congwong Beach has been my regular beach for over 10 years. It is the only beach in the [Randwick City] Local Government Area that is classified by all naturists as an unofficial nude beach. Your Council, as well as the entire Sydney community, has known this fact for that long.”

Photos

08/03/2010 Nude Clean Up, Southern Courier

Photo: Alan Place

Meetings

29/02/2008 Meeting with Cr Belleli, Randwick Town Hall

20/08/2008 Free Beach Action NSW Meeting, Malabar RSL Club

17/09/2008 Free Beach Action NSW Meeting, Kyeemagh RSL Club

15/10/2008 Free Beach Action NSW Meeting, St George Rowers Club

12/11/2008 Free Beach Action NSW Meeting, St George Rowers Club

18/02/2009 Free Beach Action NSW Meeting, Malabar RSL Club

12/03/2010 Meeting with Cr Belleli, Randwick Town Hall

Correspondence

04/10/2005 Letter to Randwick City Council

05/10/2005 Reply from Mayor Ted Seng

04/12/2005 Reply from Councillor Bradley Hughes

30/11/2005 Letter to Michael Daley, Member for Maroubra

20/01/2006 Letter from Minister Sandra Nori

06/02/2006 Letter to Randwick City Council II

14/11/2006 Letter from Minister Bob Debus

20/12/2006 Conversation with Councillor Robert Belleli

21/12/2006 Conversation with Councillor Robert Belleli II

11/04/2007 Letter from Clover Moore MP to Minister Paul Lynch

10/05/2007 Letter from Minister Paul Lynch

19/06/2007 Letter from Clover Moore, Member for Sydney II

01/08/2007 Letter from Clover Moore MP to Minister Koperberg

26/11/2008 Letter from Clover Moore MP to Minister Tebbutt

27/01/2009 Letter from Minister Barbara Perry

04/02/2009 Letter from Minister Carmel Tebbutt

12/04/2010 Letter from Randwick City Mayor

Petitions

30/11/2005 Freebeach Petition I - 67 signatures [160 KB pdf file]

30/11/2005 Freebeach Petition II - 380 signatures [612 KB pdf file]

03/11/2008 Freebeach 2008 Petition 1 - 105 signatures [1.3 MB pdf file]

03/11/2008 Freebeach 2008 Petition 2 - 113 signatures [1.2 MB pdf file]

03/11/2008 Freebeach 2008 Petition 3 - 119 signatures [1.4 MB pdf file]

03/11/2008 Freebeach 2008 Petition 4 - 105 signatures [1.4 MB pdf file]

03/11/2008 Freebeach 2008 Petition 5 - 118 signatures [1.4 MB pdf file]

03/11/2008 Freebeach 2008 Petition 6 - 102 signatures [1.3 MB pdf file]

18/11/2008 Freebeach 2008 Petition 7 - 54 signatures [772 KB pdf file]
= 1,163 signatures
+ around 300 Free Beach Action Forum members
– http://groups.google.com/group/freebeach/about

Download our new 2008 Petition form!

Polls

19/11/2008 Does Sydney need this nudist beach?

Yes - If you don't like it, don't go
66% (897 votes)
No - Public nudity only encourages sexual behaviour
33% (448 votes)
Total votes: 1345

This poll started on Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Online poll results from http://www.news.com.au

12/12/2006 Should Little Congwong be declared a nudist beach?

19/12/2006 Results - Page 23 of Southern Courier, December 19th 2006

05/11/2008 Should there be a two-year nudity trial at Little Congwong beach

Yes 91% 320 votes
No 9% 32 votes

http://southern-courier.whereilive.com.au/polls/

28-29/07/1999 Would you ever consider going to a nude beach?

24% Yes
73%  No
2%   Not sure
1%   Have gone (vol.)

Survey by Fox News and Opinion Dynamics, July 28-July 29, 1999. Retrieved July 1, 2007 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/ipoll.html.

Mail

18/11/2005 Little Congwong Beach

20/11/2005 Free Beach Update I

22/11/2005 Southern Courier Letters I

22/11/2005 Sydney Morning Herald Opinion

22/11/2005 Randwick Council Meeting

24/11/2005 Free Beach Update II

24/11/2005 Free Beach Letters I

27/11/2005 Free Beach Internet Comments

29/11/2005 Southern Courier Letters II

29/11/2005 Free Beach Update III

02/12/2005 Free Beach Letters II

04/12/2005 Free Beach Letters III

06/12/2005 Southern Courier Letters III

12/12/2005 Free Beach Letters IV

19/12/2005 Free Beach Update IV

20/12/2005 Free Beach Letters V

09/01/2006 Free Beach Letters VI

10/01/2006 Clean Up Australia Day

17/01/2006 Tourism New South Wales

23/01/2006 Free Beach Letters VII

25/01/2006 Free Beach Internet Comments II

25/01/2006 Free Beach Update V

30/01/2006 Free Beach Letters VIII

30/01/2006 Free Beach Letters IX

02/02/2006 Free Beach Letters X

03/02/2006 Free Beach Update VI

04/02/2006 Over to Randwick City Council

Mailing list messages are plain text files.
Archive from February 2006 http://groups.google.com/group/freebeach/topics

Media

15/11/2005 Southern Courier Vol. 121 No. 46
DjVu - Page 5 of Southern Courier, November 15th 2005

17/11/2005 Sydney Star Observer Issue 791

20/11/2005 The Sunday Telegraph

22/11/2005 Southern Courier Vol. 121 No. 47
DjVu - Page 3 of Southern Courier, November 22nd 2005

23/11/2005 Sydney Star Observer Update

29/11/2005 Southern Courier Vol. 121 No. 48
DjVu - Page 7 of Southern Courier, November 29th 2005

28/02/2006 Southern Courier - Clean Up Australia Day
DjVu - Page 11 of Southern Courier, February 28th 2006

05/03/2006 Triple J News with Grace Jones

05/03/2006 ABC TV News, Radio National, and ABC News Online

01/09/2006 Australian Sun and Health No. 1

12/12/2006 Southern Courier Vol. 122 No. 50 - Village Voice
DjVu - Page 7 of Southern Courier, December 12th 2006

09/01/2007 Southern Courier Vol. 123 No. 2 - Village Voice
DjVu - Pages 1 and 11 of Southern Courier, January 9th 2007

14/01/2007 Talk Radio 2UE: Weekends with Glenn Wheeler

25/09/2007 Southern Courier
DjVu - Page 34 of Southern Courier, September 25 2007

26/09/2007 ABC Sydney Feature Search for cleanest beaches

06/11/2007 Southern Courier
DjVu - Page 3 of Southern Courier, November 6 2007

20/10/2008 Southern Courier
Coastal Retreats by Wendy Fitzgibbon

05/11/2008 Southern Courier
No nudes bad news for some by Nick Moncrieff-Hill

11/11/2008 Southern Courier
The naked truth by Nick Moncrieff-Hill

18/11/2008 Southern Courier
Nudists ‘barking up the wrong tree’ by Nick Moncrieff-Hill

19/11/2008 The Daily Telegraph
Nudists lobby for naked Sydney beach

25/11/2008 Southern Courier
Nude beach hopes sunk by Nick Moncrieff-Hill

09/12/2008 Southern Courier
Less is more for Clover in nude debate by Nick Moncrieff-Hill

12/12/2008 The daily Telegraph
Clover Moore backs nude bathing at Little Congwong beach

28/12/2008 Sydney Morning Herald/Sun Herald
One man's nakedness ambition by Tom Nicol

06/01/2009 Southern Courier
Councillor's kiddie scare at Congwong by Nick Moncrieff-Hill

23/02/2010 Southern Courier
Barely legal [pdf]

02/03/2010 Southern Courier
Congwong nudity debate rages online [pdf]

02/03/2010 Southern Courier
Opinion [pdf]

09/03/2010 Southern Courier
Stripping away the rubbish [pdf]

30/12/2010 Sydney Morning Herald
[Mosman] Council looks to nature lovers to give bothersome nudists the bum's rush by Emily Crane

Articles in the news are external links. The earlier digital edition of the Southern Courier needs DjVu Browser Plugin, which is available as a free download for most OS and browsers.

Comedy

31/10/2007 ABC TV 9.00
02/11/2007 ABC TV 11.15 (Rpt)
The Chaser's War on Everything
CIO Nude Beach
[classified M - Nudity]