Fighting every inch of the way December 1, 2005
smh.com.au
Making the Pacific Highway safer should be simple. So why isn't it, asks Miranda Devine. A FAMILY of four was killed in a head-on collision on the Pacific Highway this week, the latest in a long line of fatalities on that killer road. Christopher Arkell and Katrina Dooley, both 29, and their twin children Jeremy and Eve, 6, died on Monday afternoon when their Ford Falcon veered onto the wrong side of the undivided carriageway near Karuah, north of Newcastle. For six years a real estate agent, Jim Mangleson, and his Ocean Shores Community Association have been trying to discover the details of a secret meeting in 1999 he says the RTA held with environmentalists in the Byron Bay Community Centre to strike a deal on the route the highway upgrade would take.Mangleson lodged a freedom of information request but the RTA refused him access to information about the 1999 meeting. Finally, on Friday the Administrative Decisions Tribunal ordered the RTA to produce the information within 28 days. Mangleson hopes it will prove the "Green conspiracy with the Labor government" that he is sure has placed the wellbeing of the scented acronychia and Mitchell's rainforest snail over that of the residents of Ocean Shores.
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