Nannas and friends rally outside parliament in response to the NSW Budget. A short video was taken of What’s in Minns’ Bin?.
The Bob Brown Foundation and Sydney Knitting Nannas called for a rally on 25 June outside Parliament House following the revelation that the NSW Budget failed to deliver on Labor’s environmental promise: the creation of the Great Koala National Park. Every day of delay means more industrial scale destruction of habitat is occurring in the proposed footprint of the park!
Our beautiful new banner “We can save them” painted by Tash Woolley was inspired by the issues around Wollar. It was very much appreciated on the day.
Sue Higginson spoke of the powerful letter sent to Chris Minns by the Gumbayngirr traditional owners begging for an end to the destruction of forests and habitats of endangered animals on their lands; Nanna Bron spoke powerfully about her visit to Jo Haylen who seemed very moved by the plight of wildlife losing their habitat, and how Labor backbenchers who feel strongly about the creation of the Great Koala National Park need to get together and lobby the party.
Nanna Bernie did a great job as MC and kept the crowd entertained as onlookers rescued wildlife from Minns’ Bin.
What’s in Chris Minns’ bin?
- A Swift Parrot – Possibly 300 left! It breeds in Tasmania and feeds in our forests, which are being logged!
- A Rufus Scrub Bird – Critically endangered and found in proposed logging sites, in the promised, but not delivered Great Koala National Park.
- A Greater Glider – They’re nocturnal, but forestry has been looking for them in the day and saying, “No gliders. We will log.” Volunteer forest defenders have done the work to find them at sunset and try to save their habitat. They need many hollows in mature trees.
- A Stuttering Frog – Like the Rufus Scrub Bird it has existed since Gondwana times at Cloud Creek. Forest defenders have been keeping a daily vigil to protect a long list of critically endangered animals from logging.
- A Spotted Quoll, which needs a huge area of habitat – a male quoll can range over an area 3 times the size of Sydney CBD!.
As the slogan goes, Saving forests IS climate action! Visit your local member and tell them to stop logging in our promised Great Koala National Park and all NSW native forests for the grandkids.
