I am a person who has cared for a small plot (1.005 hectares )  a little over 2 1/2 acres... of remnant trees and a riparian corridor , a permanent creek,   which feeds a significant local river system, since 2000. I have lived here since 1988, but it wasn't until my husband and I separated and divorced that I could work to improve the land. He had other ideas I kept the land.. paid for ... to all you mysogynists.!!

As well as my own physical labor and input I have also utilised available council assistance through the local "Land For Wildlife'' program to help maintain the pristine nature of this small piece of paradise.

I find myself in conflict with a neighbour, who thinks it is his right to rip out all the lower storey habitat, so its mowable. This creek has never been touched before. EVER.

Since late 2014, when I first became aware that these people were 'doing something'.. ( I reported it to the relevant authorities .. NEWMAN GOVT).  Was told  Oh I'm just answering the phone,, oh  he shouldn't be doing that... I'll leave a message for the person responsible for that region... BUT don't hold your breathe..... 
so here we are in March 2016. Nothing from the state dept.

The destruction and vandalism continues.

In the meantime, I alerted the Council.  THEY did attend.. but concluded that they had no powers to decide,  and 'he was entitled to do as he chose on his land'.

Not according to state legislation, and federal Law .. under the Nature Conservation Act it is classed as Essential Habitat. I have a map from 2003 to prove it.. but nope the local Council said it was up to me to pursue it with the relevant body,  and told the neighbours they can do as they please.. it is their land.  WRONG.

SO...

TODAY  .. I woke to the sound of chainsaws. They had been clearing and burning the undergrowth below my neighbours place yesterday, and today it was below MY place.

Incensed at their idiocy, I charged down to the creek and told them they were fwits,, and why.!! etc etc

The father and son had previously heard from me, and the father had actually entered my property and approached me to within 1 metre, to directly challenge me, because I was taking pictures of their activities.
He proceeded to abuse me verbally,  in no uncertain terms, then subtly threatened me, if the photos I took were a problem. I hadn't sent the photos to the Council, as they declared they had no jurisdiction.
TODAY HOWEVER  is another matter.!!!

Today ...   my 5nth birthday I had had enough .
So I,m down there in the bush in my thongs and shorts, yelling at these morons.
The son repeated their spurious reasons for their actions...  the father ignored me, choosing to continue to chainsaw the area... but the son got angry.. took several steps towards me and threw a machete at me. !

Well I just stood there and watched the thing get caught up on some brush and lower habitat on MY PART of that creek....  it was never going to get near me... BUT... not nice to throw a machete at someone is it.?

SO  ???
No point in official complaint to police  ( he said,she said) ......so I rang the appropriate BODY... was told to email info and any photos .

I DID THAT.

RECEIVED.

WE WILL SEE IF ANYTHING OCCURS.

So I guess I wonder why anyone would choose to destroy essential irreplaceable habitat to achieve a 'nice'look, or whatever..??

How selfish are we at heart.?  when it comes to environmental issues.??.




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Emma wrote on Mar 29^th, 2016 at 11:57pm:

If a machete is thrown you put it in writing.

Then you've got the documents, if you survive, to show others!

Don't bugger around!!

they have been burning the undergrowth.  Midnight.. Dog barking.. 

No drama... but I assure you I'll be down the creek tomorrow, using my new smart phone    and photographing and sending the pics to the appropriate authorities.  Will they do anything.?  F'n oath  ços I'll be watching..   

Well I got  a reply, and some sat pics to identify the offending property owners.

We are not talking about hectares and hectares of damage.. this is a creek, and the small area affected is vital for diversity in this hugely over-developed area.

Sad really.. we have Lendlease and Stocklands devastating huge areas of koala and other native animal habitat, so they can create mini-cities, with no apparent infrastructure like connecting roads, shops, or reasonable public transport. These are destined to spawn one enormous ghetto city reaching from The Northern Sunshine Coast to the border of NSW.

Horror.

But I can't do anything about that.  All I can do is protect what I can, for as long as I can.

well for anyone who cares.. I have made contact with an officer of the appropriate department
...  He was happy to let me speak.  Then he said... to all intents and purposes, that the area of land involved was not significant enough in size or impact to put it on their 'priority' list.  ie likely do nothing.

I have had further discussions with this person, and have provided him with more data.
UMMMMM.. I think as much as he agrees that the actions are wrong in law... they really don't have the culture funding or commitment to pursue the matter.

Sigh  it is a sad day ...   as I pointed out to him, having had to deal with various agencies on this, over a couple of yrs,  that there is no co-ordination between agencies. It is virtually impossible to get these people out of their comfy roles,  and desk chairs.!!

Yes ... more activity..today  whipper snippering and burning.

And yes .. I advised of the fires and other stuff too, like how they chopped down and removed the lower story trees like Casuarina, Red Ash and Wattle. I  rang him back and pointed out that the photos I'd sent him clearly showed them using a çhipper or mulcher to remove the smaller left- over branches... etc etc..

I referred him to Habitat and Eco system maps showing that this small bit of land was unique and important.

I haven't given up yet.

Seems Dnrm  Qld  isn't very interested. I continue to pursue the matter.

This bad neighbour has claimed he was clearing away weeds, among other 'reasons'. Funny though .. he has left behind, in all their bloom, Easter Cassia's.. which are exotic (ie Not native)  and are hugely invasive in the Aussie bush and are a declared weed.  Plus he has been planting god know's what.!!

It is a crime.  and the dept are being extremely cagey.

At least I CARE.  When I talked to the govt contact.. his remark was... sounds like my neighbour.  !!

Well stuff that... I bet your land isn't 'protected' in Law.  For what good that is.

Indeed indeed.

when you think about it, the environmental movement is made up of people like me. 
It isn't the Conservation groups that warrant your suspicion,  it is the govt(s) ..who have a different priority than sustainability or conservation,  whatever they say on media.

I haven't checked your link, ços quite frankly I don't have the time or inclination.

I need no convincing one way or the other.  I am firmly in the conservationist and protectionist camp.
I have no time for development companies, clearing land of ALL vegetation. That is what is happening just up the road from me.  NO trees were left at all. A massive site.. and they've only just started on the first phase.
This is going to house 40,000 + in the next 10+ yrs, supposedly.
  What a horror story. 

As for my personal land issue? I'm giving the guy a rest for now. HE claims he has never received any of the photos I have sent.  Am having trouble with my new(ish)comp. It won't let me download the camera software.. very frustrating.. especially when you know sfa about this stuff, like me.

Juliar you guys are the only hope the rest of the world has to free ourselves of this pestilence.

If the American people revolt against this tyranny the rest of the world will follow suit.

It has to start with you guys......

Emma wrote on Apr 20^th, 2016 at 11:20pm:



yes, it is a horror story.
I saw it recently in victoria.

juliar wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 9:56pm:



I never said anything about Thinking Globally.  No point in that for folks like me is there?.

If you read the title again you will see it is ACTING LOCALLY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.  All your conspiracy theories sound rather contradictory, especially when I see no signs of such attitudes of caring for the environment FIRST, when I see what our govts,  at local, State and Federal levels are doing in allowing the decimation of huge areas of native bush .

Not to mention this massive new coal mine in the Galilee Basin, and the inevitable damage to the Reef that will follow.

TELL ME.. where else in the so-called developed WORLD, except Australia, is a nation busily preparing to create the largest coal mine ever???  .  It is insanity.

What is wrong with people?.

As for over-population... that is so obvious,  it hardly need responding to.

[quote author=juliar link=1459259850/23#23 date=1461571273]spoken like a true Greenie only partially informed by the selective Greenie propaganda.

Get to know the TRUE REALLY HORRIBLE Greenie story and you will recoil in HORROR!!!!!

Has it ever crossed your mind why the Greenie SHY tried so hard to overrun Australia with fire breathing ISIS ISLAMICS ?[/quote]

I have no idea what you are referring to.
Nor am I interested.. you obviously have your own agenda.

This is a topic about people looking out for the health of their local environment.  Individuals.. Understand.?????

I am waiting for a new modem.. then hopefully I can ensure that the person I have been dealing with in State Govt,  will have no excuses to continue to downplay and attempt to negate my concerns.

Sadly, the previous Newman government in Queensland enacted legislation, yet to be overturned,  which allowed landholders to rip down as much as possible.. whatever they wanted. Consequently, the land-clearing in Queensland has been huge.....  disgraceful.  But that is the LNP for you. Great bulldozers with massive chains, just rip everything out.

Criminal, is what it is.

Chimp_Logic wrote on Apr 25^th, 2016 at 7:04pm:



Dear beloved Chimp,

David DuByne finally turned up on my Ice Age thread.
The trumpets played.

You will need to apologise but needn't self ban.

namaste

Dear Juliar,
but after the mini Ice Age is over temperatures may soar.

That makes the Greenies right - but just not right now.

juliar wrote on Apr 25^th, 2016 at 7:55pm:


Jeez some people have no imagination.
Clinging to the past as the present runs away from us and the future is on a collision course.

Did you know OIL can be obtained from sources other than petroleum products.??    Doh.

As for your other hysterical utterances... really pathetic and not worth answering.

Options have been closed off by successive previous govts, that is true.

Change cannot happen overnight that is also true.

BUT... we have to start somewhere. !

An extensive rail network would be my preferred option for most of Australia's freight.  Trucks running on fossil fuels, public roads and impossible deadlines are NOT the way of the future.

What can one do.?  SFA.

So.. Booby..?  you are bored, and have run out of other people to hassle so you land here. Eh?

Eh?  Eh?  Can't hear you at all, and your words are irrelevant.  Go and pester some one else Booby.  But seeing as you are here  ... I will add....

I bet you live in a small one room apartment,  in some anonymous block of ugly flats, on the fifth floor, and only see grass out your window.  I doubt you have walked on the ground, without shoes on. I doubt you see any birds but seagulls, pigeons, sparrows,  crows and Indian Mynahs, if that. .
I bet you wouldn't have a clue what to do if you ever ventured outside your chosen cityscape.

I doubt you have any clue about what you are talking about, at all. Your ignorance is boundless, and so righteously confident you are a proven fool.

Ahh but where do you live now?

How big is the block you have entered into a contract to buy?
Houses are nothing really its the land that counts.!

A big back yard eh? 

Bobby. wrote on Apr 25^th, 2016 at 10:54pm:


Does it have central cooling?

Chimp_Logic wrote on Apr 25^th, 2016 at 11:35pm:



I will fit a 3 HP air con before the summer in 7 months.

It has ducted central heating from gas.

I will be prepared for all weather.

But ... still in Melbourne yeah?  Perhaps you are moving from your grimy inner-city one-bed apartment, on the fifth floor,  to suburbia. Much land? Any native trees on it.?

Bobby. wrote on Apr 25^th, 2016 at 8:46pm:


The greens worship gaia and listen to the prophecies of the world bank.

Nothing more than brainwashed puppets of the oligarchy.

Chimp_Logic wrote on Apr 25^th, 2016 at 7:04pm:


You're a hairy asred baboon who is not fit to be a lecturer.

You're just brainwashing your students.

ha ha .... that's hilarious.

Its like asking someone  'would you die for your religion?' ..  YES?  Well then start by shooting yourself . 

No NO  .. the only hope we have, other than a massive kill-off by Mother, through various means, is to LIMIT OURSELVES.

We won't do that tho..

...so it will come down to catastrophic weather and the inundations of earth through climate, volcanic activity, earthquake, flooding and famine. That is inevitable if we continue as we are going.

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Emma wrote on Apr 25^th, 2016 at 11:49pm:



Dear Jalane,
I live in a nice unit in the outer suburbs now.
It's not grimy - in fact - every day it gets cleaner & cleaner as I approach the time of sale.
I even cleaned & re-grouted many tiles today.
I'm rather a good handyman.
I deliberately chose a place with no trees for reasons that will not be explained here.


forgiven

namaste

Emma wrote on Apr 26^th, 2016 at 12:14am:


So you want Australia to pay billions of dollars to the UN over a lie.................??? kiss that new road to your place goodbye....!!!

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Your brainwashed, I thought you might have 2 cents between the ears but its obvious you have become a foot soldier of the oligarchy through their environmental program.

Got to hand it to those guys almost nothing else stirs passion like cleaning up the earth and pollution.

The greatest army in the world.

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Do you suggest genocide for the human population so birds and crocodiles can rule the earth.

Emma wrote on Apr 26^th, 2016 at 12:33am:


Yes this is true, but whether you know it or not the very same people that have turned you into a foot soldier for the environment are also responsible for all those wars.

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You mean Gaia don't you.....???

I don't want to burst your bubble but she comes from Greek mythology like the God Zeus...very fictional.

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Why don't you find out who is responsible for most of the wars in modern times, instead of wasting your time praying to gaia, shes doesn't exist.

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No I don't.

So when other intelligent life makes contact with us, we're going to say Earth isn't ours....????

They might respond by well if its not yours we'll have it.....

Its rather strange though that all that is found in the Earth is also found in our bodies.

The Earth is ours........

Ajax wrote on Apr 26^th, 2016 at 12:42am:


You have said it,  but you do not understand what you have said, and you presume it to mean something which is clearly erroneous. ( highlight above)

What that means ??

We belong to Earth.
It owns us in every sense, yet we are doing our very best to poison it.

To believe as you do is pure foolishness and hubris.

Emma wrote on Apr 26^th, 2016 at 12:51am:


Sir Bobby
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Emma,
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Now you're speculating.
Actually it's none of your business.
What a nosey parker you are.

forgiven

namaste

Emma wrote on Apr 26^th, 2016 at 12:33am:



well, not genocide.
Some balance though.

Rid the globe of at least 1/3 the human population. It'ld solve most the problems we face.
Till the population builds again.

Leave the population as it is, we still have the multitude of problems.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 26^th, 2016 at 7:52am:


Can you hear yourself FFS.......!!??

You greenies are indeed sick in the head....LOL

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 26^th, 2016 at 9:50am:


You've been brainwashed.

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We can do a great deal to clean up pollution, the problem is the oligarchy doesn't want to pay for it, its not enough they have seized all the cash cows from the developed countries and make billions, they don't want to foot the bill.

Instead they want to create a $2 trillion dollar carbon derivatives market to fleece nations even more and play their games on the stock exchange at our expense.

If anyone should be exterminated its these people that have amassed all the world's wealth and are still not happy, they want to control the whole world and makes us all puppets. So wake up because unless you're one of them then you're nothing more than a brainwashed puppet to them.

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There is enough room for humans and animals alike, all we need is good management.

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Fresh water has always been scarce, but technology can help us to produce more of the stuff without affecting nature, eg. desalination plants.

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The Earth can feed its people, what I'm worried about is why the big banks are buying up huge amounts of the food producing lands all over the world. Do you know why...???

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Being the dominant species on this planet do you expect any less, how are we going to travel to other worlds if we stay in caves.

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Look up who is responsible for most wars in the modern era and then we can talk.

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Go ask your prophets at the world bank why we still have poverty and famines, it can be wiped of the face of the earth.

If other intelligent beings come here, I'm sure they would look down on us, because we have the ability to lift all humans out of poverty but greed from a hand full of men who have amassed the wealth of the world will not allow it.

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Look into our history there is nothing unprecedented about the current warming its been happening since the Earth was formed.

And CO2 has never controlled temperature in the past even when we had 20 times the atmospheric CO2 we have today.

Today we have some of the lowest temperatures and atmospheric CO2 in our history.

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Yes you have, how are you planning to eliminate 1/3 of the population, lets see.

Gas chambers

Mas graves

Poisoning

Sterilization

How will this be accomplished.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 26^th, 2016 at 9:50am:



sprintcyclist is a devoted follower of Paul Ehrlich. The author of such books as "The Population Bomb". The one who said there would be mass starvations by 1970's and 80's. The bloke who hasn't been right yet.

So if the law of averages were to apply to him, he might get a prediction right soon.

lee wrote on Apr 26^th, 2016 at 11:55am:



SORRY???  WHAT..???   I remember very well the mass starvation of whole countries and peoples in the 70's and 80's.

Places you've probably never even thought of, or know exists.

Places like
Biafra
Burundi
Eritrea
...ring a bell??  NO?

Just shows how ignorant you are.

Emma wrote on Apr 29^th, 2016 at 1:44am:



What Paul Ehrlich espoused was that the mass starvations would be from a global shortage of food. Not from local causes of drought, war etc.

Emma wrote on Apr 30^th, 2016 at 2:03am:


Sorry. I thought you may have heard of Paul Ehrlich and his pronouncements. I didn't think it necessary to go into tiny detail.

The story hasn't changed, just the horizon has expanded.

Would you rather I changed the facts to fit the story?