PARK WATCH March 2020 | Nature Conservation Campaigner Shannon Hurley shares the power of persistence in the battle over the Belfast Coastal Reserve. The efforts to protect Warrnambool’s...

PARK WATCH March 2019 | The Andrews Government’s special treatment of the racing industry has reached a whole new level. But so too has the rise of community opposition, explains VNPA […]...

CAMPAIGN UPDATE 30 October 2018 | Commercial racehorse training has been found illegal under the Warrnambool Planning Scheme – and therefore on Levys Beach, one of the horse racing industry’s...

MEDIA RELEASE 1 August 2018 | Conservation groups are angry at the release of a final management plan which entrenches damaging and disruptive commercial horse racing on public beaches in South...

MEDIA RELEASE 15 March 2018 | As the deadline for submissions on the draft Belfast Coastal Reserve management plan nears, national, state and local environment groups have called on the […]...

MEDIA RELEASE:  17 January 2018 | The Andrews Government’s draft management plan for the Belfast Coastal Reserve (between Port Fairy and Warrnambool) released today increases the area available to...

Key issues with the draft Coastal Management Plan Background: The reserve is 18-20 kilometres in length, meaning that the training will expand from two kilometres to five kilometres, or from...

PARK WATCH December 2017 | Analysis of the Andrews Government at the three-quarter mark It’s been three years of the Andrews Labor Government’s term in office, and we are now […]...

PARK WATCH September 2017 | VNPA marine and coastal coordinator Chris Smyth gives an update and calls on Park Watch readers to help stop our beaches becoming racetracks. Despite barely […]...

UPDATE 19 August 2017 | The Andrews Government seems determined to turn the beaches of Belfast Coastal Reserve into permanent racetracks and privatise their management. Without any public...