They want to divert Kokoda

[Wood Butcher]

All I can do is post a link to the story

I am appalled that any Australian could even begin to contemplate the idea

[watson]

Yeah Rowan, heard it on the ABC.......next thing it'll be a theme park with mud-slides, paint ball machine gun nests et al........'cos if its not the real thing, then it doesn't matter.
Don't know how the planner can sleep at nights or still breathe.

[Sturdee]

I had heard it earlier and I would prefer it to remain unchanged.

BUT it should not be forgotten that the trail is in another independant country and not under our control.

I think that any attempt to interfere with that decision is wrong and is attempting to meddle in an other country's affairs, something we all object to when the Seppos do it.


Peter.

[watson]

G'day Peter,
I'm of the same view with respect to another Independant country etc., but the reports I have been hearing is that the application has been made by an Australian owned and operated mining company.
Boggles the mind.

[bitingmidge]

I agree with Sturdee, but further ask with no disrespect intended, why has the Kokoda Track gathered so much emotional significance over the years.

Surely it's a route. It's not the same as it was then, and it won't be the same in fifty years from now.

There are many other equally significant places which didn't have movies, songs, or glamourous novels built around them, or politicians fawning over them for that matter, so they have no significance.

I am all for the preservation of history, but this one I just don't get. I am prepared to be enlightened though.

Cheers,

P