Archive for the ‘Newcastle’ Category

Curving a shared path around trees 26.5.2012

May 26, 2012

Broadmeadow.
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Going, going, gone 17.5.2012

May 17, 2012

Arthur Park, where Council used what seemed to me to be a far-fetched trees-poisoned-with-RoundUp-story, was half destroyed this week. (more…)

Million dollar footpath 23.4.2012

April 22, 2012

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Two friends listened on Thursday to a Newcastle Council representative on local radio defend the apparently sudden removal of fifteen trees last week from Lambton Park.

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Whatever happened to – Lindy Hyam 6.4.2012

April 6, 2012

Lone Pine in Memorial Grove - currently being stitched up in more ways than one

Laman Street followers will remember Newcastle Council’s General Manager Lindy Hyam who brought us such wonderful things as the current senior management and the legal advice that came up with the Roads Act as a way to destroy a beautiful streetscape. (more…)

Cr Boyd heckled 29.3.2012

March 29, 2012

Lorn back street

A school geography excursion visited the Town Hall today and were  *cough* fortunate enough to be addressed by Cr Boyd on Council and the environment. (more…)

Emailing The Man 22.3.2012

March 22, 2012

You’d think I had nothing better to do than bother Council from my emails this week. (more…)

It Only Took Them Ten Years 17.3.2012

March 17, 2012

The Herald 8/8/2002

How scary is this? (more…)

ABC radio say NCC is releasing their plans for Laman Street tomorrow 13.3.2012

March 13, 2012

The news room from 1233 rang today to ask for a comment on this.  (more…)

Maitland courthouse plane trees 28.2.2012

February 27, 2012

The Maitland Mercury has been following the plight of the beautiful trees in front of the town’s courthouse. At least a year ago the paper first wrote about how stressed the trees were looking. (more…)

POLICE PRESENCE OVERSHADOWS FIG PROTESTORS

February 2, 2012

POLICE PRESENCE OVERSHADOWS FIG PROTESTORS.

Go guys – all those lovely faces from protests and vigils.

And thank you Premier for not interfering with local government – oh, that’s right, you interfered by using 60 police to do things like use ‘pain compliance‘ on middle aged women, pinching people like toddlers do, dragging women around, putting knees in their backs and standing on young men’s hands.

And thank you Mr Pearce, our esteemed GM, for providing such fantastic supervision to ensure that fauna were protected and given time to escape – don’t worry about that nest that was thrown into the mulcher without being checked: the Roads Act trumps everything. Don’t worry about environmental issues.

Thanks to NCC’s legal advisers for coming up with this over a year ago: sleep well at night, do you?

Thanks Barry.

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