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The Spencer Files -
There is much to report on Peter Spencer's court case, it still continues and the halted government plans are still halted to introduce carbon credit rip off's.
So by Monday we will bring you the full picture of the game Howard is playing and at this stage it is 3 love to Spencer.
Mal Davies
(Editor)
NO CATTLE IN BARMAH FOREST - NO FIRE BRIGADE
The following letter was sent to PFTB by Picola CFA Captain Geoff Lubke. PFTB assisted the brigade by circulating the letter to all state politicians and the media.
ABC presenter Kathy Bedford interviewed Geoff on Statewide Drive and reported there was a very good talkback response with the majority of callers supporting the
Picola Brigade.
A government employee condemned the letter as a stunt and said that the brigade members were motivated by having cattle in the forest. Geoff Lubke has replied that only 3 of the brigades more than 40 members are cattlemen.
This is a copy of the letter to be sent to DSE Benalla, Region 22 Headquarters, Local members of parliament and copies to Nathalia Group and brigades.
To Whom It May Concern:
We, the volunteer members of the Picola Rural Fire Brigade, have serious concerns in regards to the future management of the Barmah Forest, should the cattle be removed in the future.
Our concerns are as stated:
1. Lack of management of the undergrowth and fuel loading due to removal of cattle
2. Lack of consultation with local fire brigade members
3. Lack of access tracks and bridges
4. Future maintenance of these tracks and bridges
5. Reference areas
In regards to the management of the undergrowth and fuel loading should the cattle be removed, the Parks past history, for example the high country, shows us that they do not have a workable plan in action to reduce large fire risks.
Generally, the local volunteer CFA members are first called to incidents in the forest, however, our input into safety and time is not taken into consideration. As locals, our knowledge is invaluable in relation to this issue.
We feel that the tracks are not being maintained adequately to allow fire trucks safe access to and from incidences as CFA policy states that for safety purposes, we need at least two escape routes.
Bridges also are a concern in that they are not being replaced or maintained quickly enough to provide safe access for not only the fire trucks but also the safe exit of campers and tourists. The Bendy Bridge at Hut Lake has not been replaced; Top Island has only two other access points. Also the bridge at Tarmah has been out of action for many years, McDonalds Bridge over smiths creek is in dire need of replacement. This is just to name a few.
At a recent fire where a Reference area was involved, Parks Victoria would not allow DSE to put an access track/fire break in high ground as this was in the reference area, hence sending the trucks through low wet ground causing a truck to become bogged. The CFA need to have unrestricted access to all areas should they be expected to put their lives on the line and fight fires in the bush.
Our members have voiced their concerns that if the cattle are removed from the forest and fuel loadings increase, we will seriously consider not going out there due to increased risks to our safety and accessibility.
We hope these concerns are given high priority when decisions on the forest are made in the future.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked
and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses
made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can,
and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered
with bright coloured lead-based paints. We had no
childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets
and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or
shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts
or air bags. Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day
was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a
bottle. Take away food was limited to fish and chips,
no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't
open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to
death! We shared one soft drink with four friends,
from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We
could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at
the corner store and buy fruit tingles and some
crackers to blow up frogs with. We ate cupcakes, white
bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar
in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day,
as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of
scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out
we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby
houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no
video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video
tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no
personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat
rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth
and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the
worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at
Easter time.......no really!
We were given air rifles and sling shots for our 10th
birthdays, we rode bikes or walked to a friend's house
and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just
yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends
meet!
Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment. Imagine that!!
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and
leather straps and bully's always ruled the playground
at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the
law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best
risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The
past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and
new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility,
and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had
the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and
the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so
they will know how brave their parents were.
It's nice to know that the kids of today experiencing even 50% of our day has been squashed by government dictatorship marching to the tune of their self preservation.
So for hell sake do not let today's kids enjoy life as little Australian's are suppose to enjoy- lock em up like the land and what ever else is on our dictators agenda.
This only came to pass by voting them into office.
Management, or just Culling?
Photo by Brumbby (with2Y's) 2007 on the Snowy Mountains
The "process" of managing our high country areas is the paramount concern in achieving a balance between "Man" "Land" and "Conservation."
The process of decades gone past has been shelved for modern science and environmentalist's votes and thereby has subsequently all but ignored
the incredible success, that the "Old Timers" for want of a better description, not only attained commercially, but much more importantly, maintained and enhanced
our vast Snowy High Country, environmentally.
This historic success was not reached without great difficulty along a steep uneven learning curve. From entering the lands whilst emulating Aboriginal historic land management processes, to government degree of clear falling of timbered lands, to returning to Aboriginal fire management and finally, pure mountain man ingenuity, the end result was that the alpine high bush and open plains finally had another human culture of management that understood, relied upon and sustained environmental care, that resultantly delivered a Snowy Mountain Range of lush snow grass, vibrant trees and seasonal carpets of wild flowers.
It was this latter vista of Eden like panoramic views that the (perhaps well intentioned, but this is being too, too kind) wandering fore-fathers of the modern radical green sect, sought to steal and steal they have. Not just to the detriment of the generations of high country families, but to the very environment itself. These witting minstrels of environmental vandalism saw only with their eyes and failed to open their minds as to true life realties and hence took it upon themselves to vanguard the very processes that led to the 2003 holocaust of the Snowy and subsequently the ACT and 2006, Victoria's infernos. A situation that has not only been continued to this very day, but has reached incredible stupidity through the halls of power.
We struggle to see wild flowers that thrived on the high country grazing and cool-burning. We have virtually no native fauna to speak of beyond the fringes of the rural properties surrounding the mountainous park areas, driven out by wild dog predation left unchecked. Vegetation grows rank year after year, with each year's die off falling to the ground as a mat of destruction just as if we laid black polythene sheeting over the plains an forest floor, seasonally increasing the denial of floral life to increasingly vast tracts of once vibrant terrain. We no longer have the fences that controlled the movement of the brumbies that not only were an essential resource to the high country dwellers and the steeds of the Light Horsemen, but were part of the re-introduction of the mega-fauna to our lands, the last piece in the natural jigsaw of management. Fire, and grazing seasonally. Interestingly, the mega-fauna disappeared at about the time the Dingo became prolific in this land.
Today, the environmental vandals, the radical greens and corporate raiders, are touting the Brumby as the nemesis of the Snowy Mountains, but nothing could be further from the truth.
This animal may well have been introduced by white colonisation and has since become the wild mega-fauna of our Snowy Mountains, but so what? At some point in all paleo history, all animals enter the scene somewhere they were not before. It just so happens that this introduction was in modern human time, but this in realty is of no concern to the environmental equation such introduction introduces. It was the Brumby and their tracks that inhibited the 2003 wild fires from devastating the Snowy Plains. It is the Brumby pads that allowed our environmental vandals to wander the high country with relative ease and begin the theft of the mountains. It is the brumby that spreads fertilising nutrients about the countryside in the form of manure and delivering seed stock from one area to another. It is the Brumby that turns the stagnant bog's muck over by hoof that restores the mud's nutrients and provides puck hole breeding grounds for the high country aquatic life such as the many species of frogs. It is the Brumby that grazes the snow grass that desperately has been neglected from the banning of cool burning and hence some very small part of it is still being managed. It is the Brumby that is the last real manager of our once beautiful Snowy Mountains.
It is the National Parks that have taken the stolen high country lands into their realm and failed to maintain fences that were the check barriers to where the Brumby could or could not go. The High Country folk knew this and used it to control the Brumby. Where are the fences along the main high ways to prevent the Brumby from wandering in front of a day dreaming tourist? They have all intentionally been either removed, or allowed to fall into total dilapidation to the point that once again the Vandals have caused another significant problem, yet it these radicals calling once again for the demise of this regal animal to cover their own serious failings.
If there is a small plot of extremely environmentally sensitive terrain that needs extra special care, just fence it off. Of all animals that are easy to fence in or out. It is the horse. Fences constraining horses would in no way restrict other native fauna. If it is the cost of such fencing, then why do the ministries spend millions on junket science and helicopters to chase down young men traversing the high country on horse back and in so doing risk injury to the young riders?
Like all wild animals, both native and introduced, they need managing and this management was achieved by the high country folk. They caught the brumby and either used them for themselves as working stock, or sold them to others, including the military. The same possibilities are present today, albeit the markets may be different. But this attempt to destroy the very animal that is now as native to the Australian High Country as any other single species of fauna, is contrary to good science and environmental sensibility.
Remember Guy Fawkes National Park slaughter of wild horses ordered by the NPWS from helicopter gun ships? Rumours of poisoning salt blocks in a covert programme? Stealthy shooting when the Parks are locked down for winter, ensuring there are no witnesses? No! These processes are not the answer, not the answer at all. Fence the roads and sensitive terrain. Round up the excess horses by traditional methods and sell them to the market. Certainly cull the sick and poorly when and if necessary, but anyone who has travelled the High Country widely looking at the Brumby will know only too well that the Wild Horse is neither sick, nor poorly and such animals will be rarely found.
Our Brumby management needs transparency, understanding and most of all an acceptance that this iconic, now native animal is treated not as a feral at all, but is written down, up and for the future, as the magnificent beast of the mountains that our very poste colonial cultural history was built upon.
Start with fencing, finish with trapping, but only those numbers that TRULY prove they are a problem, for to remove them in their entirety would see the Radical Green Sect win once again and the Snowy Mountains destroyed. The Brumbies are not the problem, man and his lack of knowledge about that which he wants, but has no right to, is the crucible of our mountains.
The big bucks are in water and this is fuel for thought as we see the Macquarie bank recently cringing at the thought the public may know what they are up to.
Here is and article that lays out a manipulated move by the merchant bank that could be a curtain raiser for another Snowy Hydro fire-sale in the breeze.
Editor
The 2006 sale of Britain's largest water utility, Thames Water, caused higher prices for the company's customers, job losses and increased exploitation for the workforce.
Kemble Water Ltd., a consortium led by Macquarie Bank, Australia's largest securities firm, agreed to buy Thames Water from the German utility RWE for £8 billion, a sum which includes the company's debt of £3.2 billion. Macquarie Bank will acquire 11 percent of the utility, with the rest held by the Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund, Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund II and other investors.
Thames Water was formed in 1974, along with nine other regional water companies, and subsequently privatised by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government in 1989. It was bought by RWE in 2001 for £5 billion ($9.4 billion). As a result of the sale to Kemble Water Ltd., RWE stands to make a profit of about £3 billion, in addition to the £1 billion in dividends it extracted over the past five years whilst saddling the company with debt. The sums involved could have helped considerably in repairing and renewing London's aging infrastructure.
Macquarie was founded in 1970 and has risen to become one of the world's largest financial institutions involved in infrastructure projects and one of Australia's largest companies. The secret of its growth lies in the bonanza opened up by the privatisation of state-run assets in the 1980s and, in particular, the decision of the Australian government to bring in new pension rules in the mid-1990s, forcing workers to pay a large part of their salary into retirement funds.
Macquarie's first infrastructure venture came in 1996, when the New South Wales (Australia) Labor Party government led by Bob Carr privatised the operation of a new toll road. Over the years, the bank cultivated a close relationship with such politicians.
This year Carr joined former members of the Australian House of Representatives in a highly paid position at the bank. In Britain, the same strategy was pursued. Gus Macdonald, the former Scottish trade and industry minister and member of the House of Lords appointed by Tony Blair, became the company's senior advisor.
The company's growth continued as more privatisations and public-private partnerships were forced through in Australia and internationally. In 2004, an inquiry into the dealings surrounding the $800 million Oasis sporting complex, a joint venture between the Canterbury Bulldogs rugby league team, Liverpool Council in southwest Sydney, and Macquarie Bank, found the conduct of the bank to be "predatory" and "opportunistic"-a judgement rejected by Macquarie executives. The inquiry found that council ratepayers lost about £9 million ($16.6 million) on the project.
Today, Macquarie operates around the world running Sydney's airport, London's buses, toll roads in France, a port in China, Hawaii's largest gas utility, retirement homes in Canada, and US electricity utilities. Last year, its funds were the single largest foreign investor in the US commercial real estate market. The group has worldwide assets estimated at more than £45 billion ($85 billion), making it what one newspaper describes as "the largest non-government manager of infrastructure assets in the world."
Since its Australian stock exchange listing in 1996, Macquarie shares have risen almost tenfold and the company is currently attracting about £500 million ($1 billion) in new investment every month. The bank's high profits-it has made an average return of 19 percent over 11 years-and generous pay-outs to its executives and shareholders have led to its being labelled "an incredible money-making machine" and "The Millionaire Factory." Allan Moss, the head of Macquarie Bank, earned £8.6 million ($16 million) in the last financial year-a 14 percent rise-and top executives as a whole were paid more than £58 million ($108 million).
One financial analyst says Macquarie Bank's approach "is based on a simple assumption: that there is money to be made not just at the end of a deal but at every step along the way." Typically, the bank buys an asset, sells it at a profit to one or more of nearly 30 funds which it also manages, and then extracts more fees when it sells the fund to the public. The result is that a typical deal is far more profitable than the usual ones transacted through the world's stock exchanges.
The Sydney Morning Herald has described how Macquarie Bank "has mesmerised the share market with financial origami, and investors have rejoiced in the apparently endless stream of money it generates. It is admired by analysts, investors and executives who praise its originality and its agility."
However, the Macquarie "business model" depends on acquiring more and more privatised assets that must show they are growing in value, an expanding global economy, and cheap debt. Over the recent period, US authorities have used financial measures such as the maintenance of liquidity and a low interest rate regime to prevent the world from falling into recession, but the vast expansion of liquidity and the emergence of a global financial system, well beyond the regulation of any single authority, coupled with the ever more desperate search for profit, has created the conditions for a financial crisis.
Last year, International Monetary Fund chief economist Raghuram Rajan warned, "One plausible scenario is one where the economy experiences a period of extremely low risk aversion (e.g., a sustained period of low interest rates) where asset prices become misaligned, creating the potential for a realignment with adverse consequences that ripple through the economy."
Such a realignment would be devastating for the many pension funds that see infrastructure as a long-term, relatively risk-free investment and workers in utilities such as Thames Water that have already experienced continuous cuts to jobs and conditions.
Even before the Macquarie buyout was confirmed, Thames Water CEO Jeremy Pelczer announced plans to cut a quarter of its 4,000 workforce within three years-claiming operating costs had jumped £110 million due largely to increased power and pension costs. Whole departments are being closed down, older workers pensioned off and contract workers made redundant.
This comes a year after Bill Alexander, who was chief executive when the costs soared, retired, receiving a total of £2.7 million for the year. Other directors saw their bonuses increase from £228,000 to £615,000, with the total remuneration of the four executive directors up 62 percent at £1.26 million. It is believed that they could make as much as £30 million from the sale.
And it comes in a year when the Independent newspaper labelled Thames Water "Britain's most hated company." Despite years of executive visions and mission statements, the company seems further than ever from its objective of being the UK's number one water utility.
This summer, the company imposed restrictions on water use during the worst drought in southern England in 70 years. The firm is losing about a third of its water in leaks from its water mains-the worst in the country and a level much the same as before privatisation.
The industry regulator OFWAT has regularly criticised the company for missing its leakage targets and is investigating the information the company provides as part of the discussion over charges to its customers. Although OFWAT officials insisted that they had "secured a legally binding undertaking from Thames Water to replace additional leaking water mains at the expense of its shareholders"-i.e., RWE-it is now clear that workers are the ones making the sacrifices whilst RWE has walked away with a fortune.
Thames Water also received the biggest fines for pollution in England and Wales last year after prosecution by the Environment Agency. In November, the company is in court facing for the first time prosecution for allegedly providing water unfit for human consumption.
In the face of such events, it is little wonder that there has been a stampede for redundancy-a response that has been encouraged by the betrayal of the trade unions. Since privatisation, the unions have been pursuing a "partnership" agreement with the employers, claiming it is the best way to achieve job security and better wages and conditions.
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But even before the latest announcement, the record showed that there were constant reorganisations, job cuts, outsourcing and downgrading, and frequent "management initiatives" that reversed policy taken a few months earlier. Most of those workers who have survived the period since privatisation have seen their wages stagnate in real terms.
Thames Water workers must see the dilemma facing them as part of a wider international phenomenon. Over the same two decades that the company has been privatised, the world has seen a growing social and economic polarisation. At one end of society a wealthy elite has become even richer, whilst at the other end of the social scale there is growing impoverishment.
The trade unions oppose the industrial and political mobilisation that is needed to combat this because it threatens the privileges they accrue thanks to their defence of the interests of the employers. On the political front, the Labour Party works hand-in-glove with the major corporations, while squandering billions of pounds that could be used for social purposes to prosecute a colonial-style war in Iraq.
The Socialist Equality Party advocates a fundamental restructuring of the economy to place the needs of working people and society as a whole before corporate profit and the accumulation of private wealth. Socialism would bring the main pillars of economic life into public ownership, including the water utilities, under the democratic control of the working population, so that the wealth produced by workers' labour could be used to meet social needs.
A socialist policy for water supply and sanitation would involve reorganising the water companies on the basis of rational international planning and cooperation, so that all the world's inhabitants would receive the most basic necessity of life. It would also provide for job security and decent pay and pensions for water workers.
Bertrand Russell - A Philosopher King speaks and does any of this ring a bell?
"Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do."
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of
propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part....
It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment."
"Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were
generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely
without the need of armies or policemen."
- Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953
"Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. . . . It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality
than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable,
throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished."
"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any
serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible."
"Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would
become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."
- Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953, pg 49-50
"In like manner, the scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women, and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power.
Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these qualities, probably contentment will be considered
the most important. In order to produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and biochemistry will be brought into play.... All the boys and girls will learn
from an early age to be what is called 'co-operative,' i.e., to do exactly what everybody is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children, and insubordination, without
being punished, will be scientifically trained out of them."
"Except for the one matter of loyalty to the World State and to their own order, members of the governing class will be encouraged to be adventurous and full of initiative...."
"On those rare occasions, when a boy or girl who has passed the age at which it is usual to determine social status shows such marked ability as to seem the intellectual equal of the rulers, a difficult situation will arise, requiring serious consideration. If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it."
- Bertrand Russell, "The Scientific Outlook", 1931
INVITING ALL VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS TO JOIN THE VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION.
For further information please contact Peter Cannon - (02) 6869-7634
Mobile - 0428-697-634 or 0427-697-608
NSW Volunteer Fire Fighters - JOIN TODAY
NSW volunteer fire fighters have watched the development of the MAP based risk plans (starting with the Canobolas plan in the central west) and see this planning process as the way to get their voices heard in the planning and implementation process-it encourages locals to become engaged with each other in their various brigades and zones –working together, developing the experience that many of our volunteers have acquired over many years of service.
This can now be captured in the MAP based TENURE blind mapping model risk plan. Join with the VFFA AND BE A PART OF THE WORKING MODEL.
This will give you an opportunity to make a difference—Join the VFFA today..
The RFS is working on improving the planning process and needs your help to drive and deliver the outcomes of fuel reduction, that these plans will identify,
Another bonus will be the better allocation of strategic equipment, shown up in the planning process- better resourced we are making a difference
You can help with this by identifying type and size of equipment to meet the variety of conditions we all experience across the state
Start today to get yours up and running.
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New National Greenie Watch Under Way
Plans have been set in place to establish a massive multi-user database that will be hosting a network of "Radical Green Watch" information.
Thanks go to one of our covert operatives who has expertise in this field of technology having been inspired by the Gestapo tactics of the State and Federal Environment Departments.
This will be run from an off-shore encrypted network and make available to the people of Australia a reference to these loonies and the ability to upload information, pictures, etc. It will also host a massive search engine to scan the predicted loads of information that will flow when this site is launched.
The radical green machine is starting to show cracks in the seams and lets hope this national network will assist to rip them open.
Work has started on the construction with launching about 8 weeks away.
To remind you again just how the NSW Department of Natural resources runs it's "DOB IN A FARMER" - read the following page from their website straight from the Nazi Brown Shirts handbook.
Monitoring and enforcing the Native Vegetation Act 2003
Help stop illegal native vegetation clearing
We need your help to stop illegal clearing of native vegetation. The Department of Natural Resources receives hundreds of reports of alleged illegal clearing each year.
To help us build up a database of information to focus our resources, and target our education and enforcement campaigns, please report suspected illegal native
vegetation clearing to the Department. You can call our recorded message service on (02) 9228 6439 or you can send an email to offence.report@dnr.nsw.gov.au
The more information we have, the better. Before submitting a report, try to obtain the following details:
Type of activity
Time, date and location of activity
Description, registration numbers and type of any vehicles or plant involved
An estimate of the size of the cleared area, and
Any other information you think is relevant - the more information you can provide the better.
All information will be recorded and used to guide future compliance programs which can include warning letters, remediation notices, penalty notices,
and in serious cases, prosecutions. Any information you provide will be treated confidentially.
