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1. I mistook the human, moral and spiritual meaning of the Aboriginal mural in Gould Lane, on the corner of Roscoe Street at Bondi Beach. I thought it portrays saints or forebears who gave this country the freedom of spirit and the warmth of heart we so fortunately enjoy. I thought it reflects that vital strand of our way of life that turns borders and races and cultures into the moral air inspiring liberty.

   I had even convinced myself that the Aboriginal mural at Bondi Beach welcomes those who have no home, comforts the estranged, helps mend the broken. Worse still, I had fallen into thinking that to reject it is to dispossess those upon whose shoulders we stand. I had let myself believe that to disfigure it is to befoul those we fear. I had muddied my discernment, saying to myself: "Destroy it, and if we ourselves face ruin, who will come to our defence and sing of our plight?"

   I was sorely mistaken. The Wayside Chapel and its beacon, Reverend Graham Long, have corrected my misconstrual. The Aboriginal mural at Bondi Beach is an economic threat, plaguing the Wayside Chapel at Bondi Beach. The mural constricts redevelopment of the building on the wall of which it features, and drops the monetary value of the building's price, were it sold. Economic activity and financial growth, in the end, are the elemental foundations of everything.

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