Oakleigh is only a mile and a half from Metropolitan and Huntungdale which are the northern end of the sandbelt.
It's basic and not on sand but busy and Sandy Jamieson was tireless in his campaign to keep it.
Moore Park in Sydney isn't going to be so lucky where the government look like cutting it from 18 to 9 - which is a pity given it's one of the two busiest public courses in the country
Mike,
Why does the government want to cut Moore Park?
I think because the former Lord Mayor (who doesn't play golf and likely thinks it's a game for the privileged when it's anything but) lives across the road and wants somewhere to walk her dog.
It's that silly - especially as there is a massive public park on the other side of the golf course.
The history was / is the factories across the road (two of which were Slazenger and Precision Golf Forging - who made most of the clubs bought in Australia until the 1980s) closed and were replaced by hundreds of apartments.
Now it's an easy sell for politicans to argue the golf course should be turned into a recreational space for all.
Of course, it only highlights the failure of planning which packed thousands of people into a small space without allowing any of it for a park or open recreational space.