The Action Group was formed after the Lake Illawarra Authority (LIA) built a Southern Break wall which failed to achieve the permanent entrance promised by the LIA.

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Their public excuse was that it would take ten years before the performance of the Southern Break Wall would be known .

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History had all ready shown that a Southern Break Wall  alone would not work.

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One hundred years earlier the first Southern Break Wall was attempted and had failed because north east winds create a swell that pushes the sand in to the entrance. This information was placed on a sign post on Windang island, at the entrance of Lake Illawarra, by the Lake Illawarra Authority.