Koala extinction plan on track
Attending the Murrah Reserve information session (BDN, January 8), provided confirmation that the NSW government has no interest in helping koalas. According to the final draft Murrah Reserve management plan, the major threat koalas face, dying forests, is too complex to address. So the intention is to monitor the forests decline and koala extinction.
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The plan isn't totally without active elements, because the Forestry Corporation and the Office of Environment and Heritage, intend maintaining the long term opposition to community efforts aimed at addressing this issue. This bloody mindedness is apparently required so the NSW government can continue to claim native forest logging and National Park management is sustainable. If native forest management was based on the National Forest Policy statement (1992) forests and koalas would stand a chance. Instead, the plan is to roll-over the Regional Forest Agreements, so the mindless destruction of forests can continue. From the government's deluded perspective, koalas are an impediment to this plan.
Robert Bertram, Bermagui
Name Them, Fame Them
Hey, Dr Rajesh. When you track down the top three Bega Valley HSC achievers, pass their details on to the BDN. We should all be recognizing them, congratulating them and applauding them for their success. And thank you, Dr Rajesh, for what you are doing to acknowledge their efforts.
Peter Lacey, Quaama
Religion
Meredith Coe says that God can help us overcome our addictions (BNDN, 19/1/18). Nice one God. But if you love us so much, why didn’t you make us impervious to addictions in the first place? And while we’re at it, why didn’t you also prevent cystic fibrosis and cancer in children? Where was all that alleged infinite love and mercy? Hello, God, is anyone actually there?
Paul Strutynski, Buckajo
Spare a thought for Constance
Please spare a thought for your local member Andrew Constance as he does battle with the unions. The unions as usual hold the government to ransom and couldn’t care less the heartaches they cause the community. Your local member is a man of substance and will not be dictated to by Alex Claassens and his members. It is truly a difficult time for Andrew why not send him a message of encouragement to show him you care.
Keith Beresford, Sydney
Bega ‘Yes Minister’ Hospital
Sadly a recent short period of time spent in the Bega hospital by a family member confirmed the story that had been circulating that the government has taken a page from the "Yes Minister" TV series. They built a brand new hospital in Bega, but only financed it at the same level as the old one, resulting in the ideal low cost model of no patients, and thus no increased staff requirement. Governments have strange senses of humour.
Max Lotton, ACT
Many thanks
My wife and I recently moved from Merimbula to Headland Drive in Tura Beach (which we love).
Only problem was, at the rear of our property, there were large tea trees overhanging our fence and upon inspection, a great deal of accumulated dead tea tree waste which had obviously been accumulating over many years.
On Friday Kane McKill and his team from Kane McKill Tree Services arrived on site and within what appeared to be a very short period, this team worked feverishly and had cleared all of the dead wood and created a fire break of some 10 metres.
