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.
Posts Tagged ‘fig trees’
Million dollar footpath 23.4.2012
April 22, 2012The Fall-Out from Laman Street 13.4.2012
April 13, 2012The fall-out from Laman Street’s desertification is that all Newcastle’s large trees are in NCC’s firing line. (more…)
Watch out for Hunter Water – because NCC may not 10.4.2012
April 10, 2012
A friend was alarmed today about Hunter Water Board operations worryingly close to fig trees in the residential part of Laman Street – so she asked questions about their plans. (more…)
JUDGE BLASTS CITY FIG ISSUE 1.2.2012
February 1, 2012This is part of what Judge Sidis said today in Newcastle:
The ‘Pasha Bulker’ weekend in 2007 is more recent. It tested every resource of the City and its regions. Its people worked together to look after displaced persons and restore businesses so that life quickly returned to normal.
The next event I counted as a disaster caused me to pause and ponder whether I should in fact comment. It has never been my practice to comment on matters political. I therefore asked myself what my brother Judge Ralph Coolahan would have done in these circumstances. He was never one to hold back on strongly held views, so my dear brother Ralph, I am following your example.
The next event I count as a disaster is the removal of the fig trees.
Whether you classify the trees as heritage, iconic, historic or a lethal danger, when it comes down to it they are objects of great natural beauty that demanded that every effort be made and enquiry directed to searching for a solution that would render them safe and preserve them from wanton destruction for the benefit of future generations. To me, an uninformed outsider of what was happening in the City Council, the decision to destroy them was incomprehensible. At best, this indicated a public relations failure on the part of the Council. At worst, it indicated a failure in the decision making process that brought about this result.
Of course the City and its people will survive this latest disaster. There are positives. Already the process has generated an interest in local government amongst members of the community, including several self sacrificing members of the legal professional who would otherwise scarcely have given it a second thought. They have developed an appreciation of the extent to which local government can affect the everyday lives of citizens and of the need for quality representation.
My earnest hope is that those next elected to Council will recognise that, attached to the powers conferred on them by virtue of their election, is a responsibility to listen to the voices of those they were elected to represent.”
Thankyou Judge Sidis. Thanks NBN for sharing it.
Fourteen Days of Figmas 25.11.2011
November 26, 2011
Thanks and admiration to Debbi Long for this yuletide piece: (more…)
Panic Stations 21.6.2011
June 21, 2011
There’s an earlier-than-expected Laman Street Working Party (LSWP) meeting tomorrow at 5:30pm in the Mulubinba Room in the City Hall. It’s open to the public. There could be some deck chairs to rearrange - you should come. (more…)
A Little Whine for Mother’s Day 8.5.2011
May 8, 2011
Here are some of the things I learned this week. (more…)
Wedding bells 13.4.2011
April 14, 2011
I went to a wedding in Sydney last weekend and enjoyed, in no particular order, a spectacular view of the harbour, lovely company, the optimism that always goes with these occasions, gorgeous readings – and fig trees as far as the eye could see. But not a fence in sight. (more…)
How many figs will be removed from Industrial Drive? 2.3.2011
March 2, 2011
This row of figs is on Industrial Drive in Mayfield and I hear a rumour that 6 of them are doomed so that a road can be built into a new development. (more…)
