A plan to destroy more than 20 hectares of pristine forest that was left unscathed in Australia s horror bushfire season to make way for a housing development has come under fire by local celebrities.
Actors Claudia Karvan and Michael Caton are among 60 prominent figures who have signed an open letter trying to prevent the controversial plan in Manyana on the New South Wales south coast.
The development would see 180 prefabricated homes built on the land, which has since become a refuge for native wildlife, by construction group Ozy Homes.
The letter was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday and called on federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley to withhold approval for the development under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
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Saturday, 26 June 2021, 3:41 pm
He began on RN
Breakfast by claiming that he, and his company, would be
open and transparent about mining operations. But Lucas Dow,
chief executive of Adani’s Australian operations, soon
revealed in his June 25 interview that his understanding of
transparency was rather far from the dictionary version.
When asked how the Carmichael Coal Mine was getting its
water, he claimed that these were from “legally regulated
sources” and in commercial confidence. Businesses work
like that, he stated forcefully, preferring to praise the
company for it – and here, he meant no irony – its sound
ecological credentials in solar energy and
For four decades the Mirrar people fought to regain ownership over the town of Jabiru, inside Kakadu National Park. On Saturday, they were finally granted the freehold title, with hopes it will be developed into a tourism hub.
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