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Culprit: land clearing For too long we’ve been told to blame cats for the disappearance of our wildlife. The truth was revealed in the recent Australian government’s five year Threatened Species Strategy that shows we have been conned. It states that ‘Habitat loss is politically sensitive because its main driver is the clearing of land to make way for economic activities such as agriculture, urban development, and mining.’ The strategy mentions feral cats more than 70 times, but habitat loss is mentioned just twice and land clearing not at all. Australia has one of the world’s worst rates of land clearing, which has recently increased in some regions. The clearing of native vegetation in NSW rose by 800 per cent between 2013 and 2016.
Let’s get this straight, ‘Habitat loss is the numberone threat to Australia’s species’. VA Thompson Byron Bay
Because I said so The statement by the acting Mayor that Byron Shire Council has had no role in the revised location for the bus interchange, stating that Council has had an advocacy role at best, contradicts earlier statements by Council and is therefore capable of misleading readers. It was Mayor Richardson back in February last year, who informed the community that he and council staff were working with Transport for NSW (TfNSW) on the alternative design for the interchange. It was the Mayor who made a special
trip to Sydney together with Byron Shire staff and Ben Franklin to direct and approve the location of the bus interchange with TfNSW, which was confirmed by public statements from both the Mayor and Ben Franklin. The Byron Shire Council were consulted, and advocated for the bus interchange where it is currently proposed – slap bang in the middle of sensitive state and local heritage conservation areas, including listed heritage items and a settled residential area. When approached by residents for details of their directions to TfNSW, Council refused any correspondence. No thanks to Byron Shire Council and please no further misleading statements. Paul Jones Butler Street Community Network Inc.
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A week before Australia Day I reported to the Byron Shire Council on the shocking state of the men’s toilets in Banner Park in Brunswick Heads. Nothing happened. Late February I went again to the council and the council depot said the council does not clean the toilets and gave me the caravan park’s number to call. I didn’t. Then a council vehicle arrives to unlock the doors. Sometimes the floors are hosed but often only the toilet paper is replaced. The urinal has a thick yellow slime and the stench is overwhelming. Bill Rawlinson Brunswick Heads
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