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How the owners of a jetty discovered it was dangerous after returning from overseas. How they bought the timber to repair it. How Council found out. How I found myself producing detail drawings to obtain a D.A. for an existing jetty. How I found that the Lake Macquarie Council's DCP required a Visual Impact Statement. How I found out that even to put up a warning sign required a D.A. application!

Where breaking the law could have saved a structural collapse.

There are two very old professions that are not respected, generally, by Australian society. One profession is often called the oldest, the other has changed and widened to make its practitioners experts in the increasingly complex and multi-faceted aspects of the entire environment.