Murder on Lower Fort

Banner image for the Facebook page Save Our Homes MURDER ON LOWER FORT John Stapleton Whichever celestial being anointed Pru Goward as NSW Planning Minister had a divine sense of humour. You couldn’t have created a bigger debacle at Millers Point in Sydney if you had been planning it since birth. In mid-September of 2014, in a scene being repeated a number of times across the historic suburb nestled in next to the southern flanks of the Harbour Bridge, it took 12 policemen and several housing officers to remove squatters from one of the houses on Argyle Place. Posters and banners on surrounding houses sent the message: “Save Our Community”, “Save Our Heritage”, “Save Our Homes”, as did blown up posters of newspaper articles: “The state government is offloading 100s of harbourside homes at Millers Point without economic modelling or an up-to-date social housing plan, raising doubts over the integrity of the controversial sale.” As the squatters briefly...