-˜Beat off’: MP slams nudist beach

-˜Beat off’: MP slams nudist beach

The deputy leader of the NSW liberals has demanded police stop gay activity at a nudist beach on Sydney’s north shore.

North Shore MP Jillian Skinner has told parliament that men are exposing themselves and masturbating in front of women and children at Obelisk Beach.

Skinner made the statement following a crusade by Mosman mayor Denise Wilton and the local newspaper The Mosman Daily to have nude and undesirable visitors banned.

It doesn’t matter if the activities are done by gay or heterosexual people, women or children, it’s unacceptable, Skinner told Sydney Star Observer.

The reports I’ve had are that children have been exposed to what I’d call indecent behaviour. I don’t think they’re physically at risk, but I don’t think anyone should be exposed to this kind of behaviour. My gay friends said the same thing; they were also concerned.

Skinner said Obelisk was only now generating complaints because the area had recently been opened up following the military’s departure from Middle Head.

I don’t have a problem with nudist beaches per se, but police and Parks and Wildlife Service should be patrolling and investigating indecent behaviour, she said.

Wilton wrote in her Mosman Daily column last week that the beach was now publicised internationally on the internet as a gay beat.

Unfortunately, they are being accessed by people we do not want in our suburb, particularly on Obelisk, she wrote.

But when contacted by the Star, Wilton said she wasn’t homophobic and it wasn’t about the patrons being gay.

Some of the people are behaving not as they ought to; I don’t know what to do. It’s not a nice atmosphere for the bathers to have police and rangers wandering around.

When our kids see people masturbating and being harassed, and when the little school soccer team won’t go back to the oval after they were photographed, that makes me annoyed.

A spokeswoman for NSW Parks and Wildlife said, contrary to other reports, police can and do investigate instances of criminal activity on the beaches.

We’ve also put in access ways over the years to help open the area up and reduce the number of hidden parts, the spokeswoman said.

Police were not able to comment by time of publication.

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