Comment: Across Sydney, our public swimming pools are under threat | pitthen
The North Sydney Olympic Pool, which requires an upgrade.Not another pool under threat of closure? Across this city, from Dence Park in the north-west to Carss Park in the south, our swimming spots are under threat.
Not to mention the people of Parramatta who lost their pool in the remodel of the local football stadium. Or Lane Covers whose 50-metre outdoor pool disappeared last year.The iconic North Sydney art deco gem, built in 1936, site of two Empire games and 86 world record-breaking swims, is but the latest in a long line under a cloud.Cutting the council coffers that maintain a local pool cuts to the core of what it is be Australian.
You don't need to take a ratepayer-funded study tour, as North Sydney councillors did, to Melbourne – home to a swimming complex named for a drowned PM, the– to understand that pools are more than just places to ply in chlorinated solitary confinement. They are meeting spots – social centres – as much as town squares or shopping malls. Just ask Olympian swimmer Shane Gould, who is doing a doctorate on the place the pool plays in the social conscience of Australians.
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