A Moratorium on development of St Clair Reserve, South Australia


A Moratorium on development of St Clair Reserve, South Australia
The issue
As World War Two came to an end, those who'd lost Loved One and Friend
Petitioned Woodville Council that they set aside land
A place In Living Memory, the love for their Dead for all to see
and future people warned of the cost of War's Hand.
As decades went past, people came to remember
and the memory to always preserve
Crosses and plaques were laid in sad honour
Some scattered their ashes on St Clair Reserve
Seventy years since the locals requested
and parkland is valuable real estate
St Clair is to fall to a housing development
when never intended to suffer this fate.
Questions were asked, how the land had been taken,
An Inquiry was started in our Upper House
with no verdict due before the election
And you, Mr Premier, are as quiet as a mouse.
Problems with land deals now surround you
Roofs you no doubt want to thatch
Regarding land, let us remind you
St Clair is in your Electoral Patch
The contracts bringing residents
are daily further far-away
Those houses planned for St Clair Park
No longer need to be built today
Until the truth of of the deal's revealed
"Moratorium" is our call
Show the landswap just and clean
before the first trees fall?
The boss of the War Memorial
and the warriors who returned
have asked to save St Clair
Jay, please show them all is fair
before the Park is gone.
and the lessons that they learned
are lost for Time Eternal.

The issue
As World War Two came to an end, those who'd lost Loved One and Friend
Petitioned Woodville Council that they set aside land
A place In Living Memory, the love for their Dead for all to see
and future people warned of the cost of War's Hand.
As decades went past, people came to remember
and the memory to always preserve
Crosses and plaques were laid in sad honour
Some scattered their ashes on St Clair Reserve
Seventy years since the locals requested
and parkland is valuable real estate
St Clair is to fall to a housing development
when never intended to suffer this fate.
Questions were asked, how the land had been taken,
An Inquiry was started in our Upper House
with no verdict due before the election
And you, Mr Premier, are as quiet as a mouse.
Problems with land deals now surround you
Roofs you no doubt want to thatch
Regarding land, let us remind you
St Clair is in your Electoral Patch
The contracts bringing residents
are daily further far-away
Those houses planned for St Clair Park
No longer need to be built today
Until the truth of of the deal's revealed
"Moratorium" is our call
Show the landswap just and clean
before the first trees fall?
The boss of the War Memorial
and the warriors who returned
have asked to save St Clair
Jay, please show them all is fair
before the Park is gone.
and the lessons that they learned
are lost for Time Eternal.

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Petition created on 1 March 2014