For at least five years I have waited for any semblance of Management committee to be formed to to protect the recreational area on the North side of the Lake at  Camperdown. I have been assured repeatedly there will be one. It’s been a long wait. Funds continue to  pour in for enlarged boating facilities on the other side despite the Algae content creating a putrid smelling foetid watery recreation space. They have solutions for this and don’t apply them. On the Nth side which was historical land set aside for local use including the Botonical Gardens and the Golf Course, these areas are well maintained and the ret seems like it can go to hell.
The occasional koala gets caught in the fences going to the Botonical gardens and the few wallabies and kangaroos have to navigate the road of peril as they try and cross between land bridges and avoid the rush hour traffic of vehicles flying down the hill to the Golf course for drinks on a Friday afternoon. In such a rural setting it shouldn’t be sight often seen of slaughtered roos hit by cars here.
The bush itself is regularly plundered by people scavenging firewood with their chainsaws and utes. Others drive their new 4 wheel drives directly through the bush cutting new tracks willy-nilly and leaving their trash everywhere after them. Since the rushes were poisoned , there are very few big birds like the swans and pelicans there any more and the 4 wheel drivers now can access the beach very comfortably. Certainly encourages more campfires by the shores and the litter left behind. Notice a big increase in people setting up camp in the parking area and nearby despite camping facilities that are affordable at the top of the hill there.
My biggest concern has been the campers at “Swallow Point” at times shooting as well as fishing there. I have counted up to seven gun shots before getting out of here and contacting local police at the weekend. 
My voice seems to be laughed at by the local person on Council that I have frequently queried things about. When I asked him about the poison from the vast spraying that went on to kill the rushes, he told me his men sprayed with their backs to the water on the Lake shore and so none of it would go into the lake. The poison simply flowed and sprayed straight into the water. He thinks I am an idiot!
I have been able to walk along the water along from Swallow Point and pick up sluggish fish in my hands as they have swum erratically,
gasping for air. Anyone interested in what this is about? 
I was amazed one day, when a tall rubberized man emerged straight out of the lake as I sat there – coincidentally, thinking about how I sometimes imagined the “Monster from the Black Lagoon” emerging from the Lake when I swam there as a child. Here was this huge German man ,growing bigger by the second climbing out of the water. There was no warning as there were no bubbles . He had one of those new scuba breathing boxes on his back. We talked and laughed afterwards when I recovered from the shock. He came up frequently to walk alone for long periods of time on the bottom of the Lake from the Nth side.  I wandered what could possibly be so fascinating. he said there were no of cars there from other era. The thing he did talk about though were the no of fissures he saw increasing as sulphur streamed through from the volcano that the Caldera lake filled. We both thought it may be contributing to “dopey” sluggish fish swimming up by the edge.  I noticed at the time that the hawks catching the fish were just dumping them back down close to the rd. My dog used to make a B-line for them and roll in them, with me then needing to get her bathed as soon as possible as they smelled foul.