At 11:00 this morning, representatives of the Land and Environment Court, Council and the Cooranbong/ Morisset community will meet at the ancient blackbutt tree on Freemans Drive Morisset to determine whether it is to be destroyed to make way for a residential subdivision.

Greens West Ward and Mayoral Candidate, Howard Morrison, said “Lake Macquarie Council has called in the Land and Environment Court to adjudicate this morning on the fate of the significant tree. I urge the court and community today, that as they stand dwarfed by the enormity of the tree, that they recognise it as an incredible relic from the past and vote to retain what must be one of the largest blackbutts in the state.”

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GREENS Lord Mayoral candidate, Cr Ian McKenzie, warned Broadmeadow residents
last night they would be the residential community whose amenity would
suffer most if Lord Mayor John Tate and fellow musketeers, Gary Kennedy and
Glen Thornton succeeded in cutting the rail at Broadmeadow.

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