While watching “Four Corners” on Monday night, about the critically endangered Koala species in south east Queensland and northern NSW, it was quite disturbing to note that our local Tweed Shire Council is considering candidates in support of further development.
Some have a warped vision of what is Australian. The no-go development he insisted in promoting at Cobaki NSW is a good example of his expertise in urban development.
Prime Koala land was reduced by a bulldozer to a burning heap of eucalypt oil only to come to an arterial collapse at Boyd St Tugun. Too bad they don’t live in a tree. Or does he?
I wonder if the average Aussie actually knows what is going on in the “Good Night Boys and Girls” of Koala land.
In 1927, sixty thousand Koalas were killed for their skins and fur to adorn the fashionable human body. Was this a mistake, yet again, made by another Qld Government?
Northern NSW is again facing political decisions concerning our native fauna, one of which is now critically endangered. Too bad the Four Corners program on the decline in Australian Koala population and habitat destruction was not produced prior to the decision made by Tweed Shire Council, to allow dogs and cats into a Koala habitat where human housing has been given the go-ahead. Maybe some Tweed Shire Councillors may have been alarmed!
We already confront Mr O’Farrell’s decision to willingly allow “hunting” in National Parks NSW, where most of our endangered wildlife survives. Surely politicians have more brains than to endanger native Koalas and their habitats?
It makes one’s head spin to realise the dilemma our Wildlife is in!
Next election, I will vote for Eucalypts and Koalas.
Mary Grant
Wildlife Carer
Tweed Heads South
