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4 March, 2026
Auction enters final days
Local residents are being urged to throw their support behind the Reject Repoly Gala and Auction as it heads into its final days.
Local residents are being urged to throw their support behind the Reject Repoly Gala and Auction as it heads into its final days.
Tickets are still available for the gala dinner at Hopewood House on Saturday night (March 7) – but people will need to get in quick as they are almost sold out.
Tickets are available online at www.tickettailor.com/events/rejectrepoly
The online auction features more than 50 fashion, art, dining, wellness and lifestyle items and will conclude at 11pm on the same night.
Fashion designer Collette Dinnigan – the first Australian designer ever invited to show in Paris – has donated three black cocktail dresses from her dress archive to help the Reject Repoly cause.
Dinnigan will host Saturday night’s gala dinner along with celebrated artist Tim Olsen.
Olsen has donated a fully catered lunch or dinner for 10 – complete with a talk on ‘Art and Life’ – for the auction.
The event will be catered for by author of ‘Small Food’ and ‘All Fired Up’ – Southern Highlands resident Brigid Kennedy - at Olsen’s Woollahra Gallery.
Other auction items include a Joh Bailey luxury hair experience valued at a minimum of $1000 and a cricket bat signed by famed English test captain David Gower, which is being described as ‘priceless’.
The full list of auction items can be viewed at https://app.galabid.com/rejectrepoly/items
A Reject Repoly spokesperson said the response to the auction had been “terrific”.
As previously reported by The Southern Wire, the Reject Repoly campaign is in desperate need of financial support and has said that “highly specialised lawyers and barristers” – coming at a significant cost - will be the only way to defeat the controversial proposal.
The original Plasrefine project was rebranded ‘Repoly’ after the project was rejected by the Independent Planning Commission last year and the applicant lodged an appeal in the Land and Environment Court.
One of the campaign’s supporters, Moss Vale famer and former MP Peta Seaton, has said a “big war chest” will be the only way to make the community’s voice heard.
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