Please have a look at this Youtube clip:.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=0ahYGhHlP3w
This short Video puts the finger on the Newcastle pulse and is clearly critical of the negative myopia of the Newcastle Councillor’s who on the 17th August 2010 decided:
“ The Hills fig trees in Laman Street Newcastle between Darby Street and Dawson Street be removed as soon as possible and replaced with a central line of Hills Figs as soon as suitable trees can be provided"
Such an action would put our Cultural Precinct back in the fifties.
It will take thirty years for the replacement trees to reach a mature form and a row of trees in not the cathedral quality we enjoy in Laman Street now.
Hardly the action of mature men and women with the city at heart.
Look about you see and acknowledge what is good and work to protect it for all to enjoy.
Doug Lithgow
Other videos:
Save the Figs: The 8 Stupid Reasons to Cut Down Nice Trees">Save the Figs: The 8 Stupid Reasons to Cut Down Nice Trees
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=uuDGEQn4wrw
The Perilous Figs of Laman St
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtlqyd3cojY
"HONK to save Laman Street Figs" , Newcastle.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=kD6Paljl0sU
