It is a common result everywhere.

We had a nice little national park on the southern side of the Burrum river, north of Maryborough. The bush was nothing special, not even a good example of wallum vegetation. However it fronted the Burrum almost opposite the village of Buxton, where a very large, & unusual for a Queensland river, clean white sandbank filled most of the river.

National parks, with their earlier philosophy of encouraging public access & use, had picnic tables, garbage bins & a few other improvements along the river, where it was beautifully safe for small children to play on the sand, & in the shallow still water.

The new Goss Labor government repaid the greens by gazetting a bunch of new parks. Of course they had no money to increase the budget or staff to maintain these new parks. They decided to lock up our little park, in favour of new assets.

They tried. When fences disappeared they tried large trees chopped down, [this is in a park], & dragged across the tracks. When these disappeared too, they tried large ditches. Miraculously these filled in over night.

I don't know who won, I moved out, but it is typical of lefty attitude. They use anything to buy the ratbag fringe vote, destroying most that is good just in passing.

Mark, Like many in your profession, you continue to mistakenly label the groups you criticise as “environmentalists” and “environmental activists.” You actually flatter them, as none of the leading individual activists or groups, have any understanding of the unique nature of the Australian natural environment, or any clue as to how to conserve our precious forests. Preservationists, eco-political activists & saboteurs are much more accurate descriptors of those you describe in your article.