North Coast Voices readers may recall that in March 2017 Lower Clarence River communities became aware that Liberal MLA for Willoughby and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and members of her Cabinet were considering expanding the uses that the Clarence River estuary and the Port of Yamba could be put to.
By November of that year it had firmed into future plans for Yamba to become a cruise ship port and destination with a waterborne trojan horse to be delivered into the estuary in October 2018.
The Yamba and Iluka communities were not amused by both the NSW Government's plans and its lack of consultation.
These communities got loud. The Berejiklian Government went quiet and the named international cruise ship company decided to bypass the Port of Yamba.
There appeared to have been no specific development activities in 2019 or in 2020 when the global pandemic reached Australia.
However, this was, and under Liberal MP for Epping NSW Premier Dominic Perrott still is, a government which doesn't like taking a decided "No" for an answer.
So this is still appearing on a current tourism website set up under the auspices of the NSW Government.
Note: All webpage snapshots were taken on 16 May 2022 at
https://www.visitnsw.com/travel-information/cruise/yamba
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