A great article about all the beaches in The Age today. According to the article:

For more than 30 years, nudists have been getting their gear off around Melbourne. Here’s Metro’s guide to the best clothes-free beaches. Luke Buckmaster reports

Great comments from Barbara Rolfe, who represented the views of the nudist/naturist community very well in the article. Werner Jacob, president of the Nudist Association of Victoria, also made some excellent comments, so thanks to both of you.

More from the article:

Nakedness and liberation is an association widely echoed within the nudist community, but self-empowerment tends to mean little to those who campaign against public nudity. Pro-nude organisations such as Free Beaches Australia Incorporated claim their shores are constantly under threat from the nudity naysayers: councils, property developers and religious lobbyers.

To read the entire article, click here

The Southern Courier has an online poll running, asking “Should there be a 2-year nudity trial at Little Congwong beach” – clearly the answer is “YES!!!”, we’re not really sure why they even offer “no” as an option…

Click on the link below and show your support not just for our Victorian beaches, but our interstate venues as well!! The poll is near the top of the page, under the main image…

Click here to vote in the poll!!

There’s a poll showing currently on the front page of the online Geelong Advertiser, posing the question “Should nude beaches be banned?”. We’re going to ignore the obvious generalisation of the topic on the grounds that there must have been a limited number of words the Addy could fit in that little box!!

Please get along to the poll and show your support for keeping nude beaches open for the enjoyment of thousands of users from all over Victoria, nationally and even around the world

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/

Update: 27/1/07 1.45pm – 68 voters say no to banning CO beaches, from 76 respondents that’s 89% for keeping them open!!

Update: 28/1/07 10.00am – 187 votes are in, with 91% in favour of not banning nude beaches!!

Update: 30/1/07 11.40pm – 602 votes are in, with 92% saying nude beaches should not be banned!! Support for keeping the beaches open is clearly there

Update: 31/1/07 11.50pm – 662 votes are in, with 92% still saying nude beaches should not be banned!! After 4 days of running, it looks like slightly more than 9 in 10 people want to keep nude beaches open. That’s a very interesting result indeed!!

According to this article in the Gellong Advertiser (Click here to read), support for the poll has gone international!! Just think, lots of potential international nudist tourists now know Torquay and Pt Impossible exist!! Nudism is good for tourism, we say!!

(Taken from a post to Melbourne_nudist-naturists Yahoo forum)

Although we have about 20 legal nude beaches throughout Australia, and many more that are unofficially condoned by the authorities, there are never any guarantees. In the past we have seen high profile legal nude beaches such as Reef Beach in Sydney Harbour closed due to pressure from local objectors. You can help prevent this by following the prompts in the list below and vote against the proposed closures.

Miners Beach – near Port Macquarie, New South Wales Miners Beach is an unofficial nude beach near Port Macquarie, NSW. (Lighthouse NP). At the end of 2003 the council built a boardwalk from the nearby textile beach and now people walk through the NP via the nude beach. The council has recently erected signs saying “If nudists offend contact police”.

We are therefore close to losing yet another unofficial nude beach in NSW (Little Conwong Beach” has suffered the same problems). I have been alerted to the website of a magazine that is running a poll as to whether to keep a nude beach at Miners Beach or not. The website address is http://www.focusmag.com.au

We need all nudists to go to the site. On the left at the bottom of the article is a poll. Click on this and vote “yes” to keep the nude beach. We need your help with this NOW!

(At the time of posting this article, 1323 votes had been cast with 82.2% indicating support of an official nude beach on the mid-north coast)

For the full article, Click here or click below if the link has been taken down…

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