Light on the water – Ode to our Ministers.

 Portsea Pier

From dusk to 10 pm on Tuesday 8/01/08 we will surround Port Phillip Bay with our love and gratitude. For an hour we shall hold that focus and send our energies across the surface and deep into the sea.

By thinking of each other as we shine our lights around the shores and on the water, we shall form a bubble of life over the entire Bay – a sanctuary for humans and seaplants, for animals and birds, for our world.

The caretakers and guardians of this Bay are our own elected government. Our ministers are entangled and cornered in a contract that was made years ago in another time.

They are afraid now and lost. They need our Light.

We can free our politicians from this contract. We can grace them the chance to withdraw without ‘losing face’, without recrimination, without punishment or scorn.

We know, too well, the need to revise and rethink that which may have seemed so right in yesteryears. We, the people of Australia, have rethought our political landscape.

Our world is changing and we are maturing as a nation. The old ways of profiteering for a few at the expense of so much and so many – we, choose differently now. We know these days, too much to ignore and pretend.

What do we need of bigger ships?

Why should we poison our Sanctuary and Marine world?

How can we bear the loss of habitat; the loss of our freedom to fish, to dive, to swim, to sail, to explore and discover; the loss of our healthy world?

These losses and 30 years of pain for our marine world cannot be perceived as gain for anything or anyone. To do so – is illusion.

We decline.

Let us grant that space for our ministers

to think again,

how to minister.

We will hold our Vigil of Light on Tuesday night.

We shall shine the Light into the Darkness.

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