Former Australian of the Year joins Lake Eyre sailing controversy

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5:16 AM Mon 14 Mar 2011 GMT

'Lake Eyre sailing - will it ever happen again?' .

Dick Smith, former Australian of the Year and keen activist across his wide ranging interests, has joined the fracas surrounding the ban on sailing on Lake Eyre (see Sail-World story ). Smith has criticised the South Australian government's boating ban on Lake Eyre, calling it 'amazing.' Smith's protest has taken the form of a letter to Premier Mike Rann objecting to the government's decision to ban sailing on the lake because local Aboriginal people have claimed the lake is culturally significant. Water levels in the lake are at their highest in two decades, and for many years now members of the Lake ...

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