The punishment for felling Australia’s foreshore trees is a mere pittance against developers’ obscene profits | Paul Daley

The bastards who vandalise trees to enhance views should be criminally pursued in line with those who vandalise public buildings

I have a dream. It’s all about the day on which the first of Sydney’s antisocial tree vandals cops a truly punitive fine or, better still, prison time as they more likely would if they’d so cynically destroyed private property or public infrastructure just for the sake of a water view.

The next best thing, for the time being anyway, is hearing that another stolen view for which hundreds of native trees were wilfully lopped has been retributively denied to one more narcissistic environmental felon.

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