This youtube video talks and shows a 12 year fight to save piece of local remnant rain forest called College Creek not far from Monash Churchill, Victoria . The area is home to owls, koalas, quolls and other native animals.

Our government is beyond the pale. Jennings has gone back on Thwaites's word. The last population of viable indigenous koalas is now about to go under the bulldozer apparently because some creepy corporation cannot make its timber plantation committment

College Creek is close to Tarra Bulga National Park, it is something that students at Monash ought to get involved in. Basically, speaking there is an area of about 10 kms x 10kms of temperate rainforest, old growth , ( regenerated naturally from 1950 , but still natural old growth) that was going to be protected from logging by the company which has been given a 99 year lease of this Crown land , because it is a continuous link (Corridor) for flora and fauna from Tarra Bulga. This area is bigger than Tarra Bulga. The company has decided that to maintain its profits, it now needs to enter into this area which they had agreed would be left alone.

A summary of the issues will be posted on this page in couple of days. It was covered on Stateline some weeks ago and a report on this will be posted here also. UniSuper is a key investor in Hancocks Plantation and so we have asked the NTEU to publicise the issue to members nationally, for them to register their protest to the fund they probably contribute to. Stan Rosenthal at Clayton said that would be OK, and they are waiting on the brief .

I think the students of this campus ought to get involved. Like the good old days when students had space and time to think about things apart from basic survival...

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