CONGRATULATIONS to S. Amesbury for pointing out the contradiction (hypocrisy) regarding the intent to stop conservation groups from using the EPBC Act that Tony Abbott supported when it was proposed and passed in 1999.
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His anti-environment stance fits well with the current NSW government where its threatened species legislation is overruled by rural zoning.
Then we come to the Shoalhaven City Council which also has an anti-environment focus and we have a governmental trifecta working against legislation supposedly designed to protect the environment but obviously the opposite is now the rule.
This line of thinking is promoted by those whose next excursion into the bush will be their first and if native flora and fauna cannot turn a dollar then it is considered to be of little use.
A. Stephenson,
Nowra.
