Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act Review 2020

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act provides a basis for challenges to projects and practices that endanger our environment, and flora and fauna such as Adani, Coal Seam Gas in the Pilliga (Narrabri), and the Murray-Darling river system. Clearly this Act is not achieving what it should. The deadline…

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The war on trees

March 2017 Some of our Councillors are trying to pass a motion that will give open slather to tree removal across the Shire. They are saying that this is necessary because residents are unable to remove “dangerous” tree. This is simply not true. Sutherland Shire already has policies in its…

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