Grief Planted this Memorial Avenue - Greed Will Cut It Down
Nov 14, 2023 11:40:25 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Nov 14, 2023 11:40:25 GMT 8
Grave times when greed trumps soul of a nation
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This is a little story in a little country town that describes who we are now as a nation.
When Field Marshal Lord Allenby cut the white ribbon on Anzac Memorial Avenue in the village of O’Connell, 185km west of Sydney, in 1926, he didn’t tell the folk, who raised money for the war memorial with community dances, that “in 97 years, we will chop these down to get foreign-made wind industrialisation through for a multinational developer”.
Yet, here we are.
In O’Connell, 66 of the town’s sons enlisted and 12 were killed in action.
You had a one in five chance of dying. That doesn’t include those who were maimed, who returned with their minds out of shape.
Lord Allenby told those who planted O’Connell Anzac Memorial Avenue that he never wished to lead braver troops.
He told them their names “would live forever in the gallant deeds they had performed for the Empire” and “it was fitting that their memory should be perpetuated by an avenue of that kind”.
“As the trees flourished and grew larger in stature, he trusted that the memory of the men to whom they were dedicated would become greener and greener, and more firmly fixed in the minds of their fellow countrymen”, the Bathurst National Advocate reported.
For 97 years, that was true. Families never forgot, and the Desert Ash grew a greener and greener cathedral canopy. But today could be the final Remembrance Day that O’Connell gathers by the memorial before it is butchered.
Spain-based Naturgy Group and the Albanese government and NSW government, led by Chris Minns, see it as just trees in the way of their renewables gold rush.
If we are up Rio Tinto for blasting a sacred Aboriginal cave, what are we doing to the foreign wind company for slashing sacred trees to the fallen?
It’s a shame no endangered frog is living in it – just a spiritual representation of those who died and were maimed for us.
From the overseas developer to the renewable grifters, to the shameless bureaucrats who believe this should happen, to the weak ministers with the backbones of slugs, this is an incomprehensible act of national shame that speaks to who we now are.
They would not dare rip down memorials for wind factories in Britain or the US.
In Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, every war grave gets a wreath, green with a red bow on every stone, every Armistice Day.
Semi-trailer after semi-trailer of US corporates park full of wreaths, and they honour the fallen.
In Australia, our corporates won’t proudly and visibly support our veterans; they drum up support for the doomed Voice referendum and forget about indigenous issues as quickly as they seemed to care.
Overseas companies now have more rights than the blood of our WWI Diggers. A government sits idly by, letting a foreign company chop down a war memorial, and has lost its reason to be in power.
No member of the Minns government should say Lest We Forget when they are complicit with this. You should have remembered. Suffering, sacrifice and sorrow grew this avenue.
How dare you allow a foreign company to chop it down?
Ironically, not only is heritage junked for a wind factory, but environmental regulations too.
In NSW Planning’s proposed route, the turbines will be transported from Newcastle to the Paling Yards Wind Farm, Oberon, on oversized, overmass vehicles that require at least 6m height clearance and 8m width, destroying the cathedral of a connected roadside tree canopy.
Australian Standards on “pruning of amenity trees” allows a maximum of 10 per cent pruning. Yet this, like every other environmental regulation, is ditched for the renewables revolution – 120 trees will lose their boughs on one side, predisposing them to a slow death.
The transition costs to net zero are higher energy bills, ruined agricultural land and koalas murdered with blunt force trauma – and now our cultural soul.
Grief planted this memorial avenue. Greed will cut it down.
……
This is a little story in a little country town that describes who we are now as a nation.
When Field Marshal Lord Allenby cut the white ribbon on Anzac Memorial Avenue in the village of O’Connell, 185km west of Sydney, in 1926, he didn’t tell the folk, who raised money for the war memorial with community dances, that “in 97 years, we will chop these down to get foreign-made wind industrialisation through for a multinational developer”.
Yet, here we are.
In O’Connell, 66 of the town’s sons enlisted and 12 were killed in action.
You had a one in five chance of dying. That doesn’t include those who were maimed, who returned with their minds out of shape.
Lord Allenby told those who planted O’Connell Anzac Memorial Avenue that he never wished to lead braver troops.
He told them their names “would live forever in the gallant deeds they had performed for the Empire” and “it was fitting that their memory should be perpetuated by an avenue of that kind”.
“As the trees flourished and grew larger in stature, he trusted that the memory of the men to whom they were dedicated would become greener and greener, and more firmly fixed in the minds of their fellow countrymen”, the Bathurst National Advocate reported.
For 97 years, that was true. Families never forgot, and the Desert Ash grew a greener and greener cathedral canopy. But today could be the final Remembrance Day that O’Connell gathers by the memorial before it is butchered.
Spain-based Naturgy Group and the Albanese government and NSW government, led by Chris Minns, see it as just trees in the way of their renewables gold rush.
If we are up Rio Tinto for blasting a sacred Aboriginal cave, what are we doing to the foreign wind company for slashing sacred trees to the fallen?
It’s a shame no endangered frog is living in it – just a spiritual representation of those who died and were maimed for us.
From the overseas developer to the renewable grifters, to the shameless bureaucrats who believe this should happen, to the weak ministers with the backbones of slugs, this is an incomprehensible act of national shame that speaks to who we now are.
They would not dare rip down memorials for wind factories in Britain or the US.
In Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, every war grave gets a wreath, green with a red bow on every stone, every Armistice Day.
Semi-trailer after semi-trailer of US corporates park full of wreaths, and they honour the fallen.
In Australia, our corporates won’t proudly and visibly support our veterans; they drum up support for the doomed Voice referendum and forget about indigenous issues as quickly as they seemed to care.
Overseas companies now have more rights than the blood of our WWI Diggers. A government sits idly by, letting a foreign company chop down a war memorial, and has lost its reason to be in power.
No member of the Minns government should say Lest We Forget when they are complicit with this. You should have remembered. Suffering, sacrifice and sorrow grew this avenue.
How dare you allow a foreign company to chop it down?
Ironically, not only is heritage junked for a wind factory, but environmental regulations too.
In NSW Planning’s proposed route, the turbines will be transported from Newcastle to the Paling Yards Wind Farm, Oberon, on oversized, overmass vehicles that require at least 6m height clearance and 8m width, destroying the cathedral of a connected roadside tree canopy.
Australian Standards on “pruning of amenity trees” allows a maximum of 10 per cent pruning. Yet this, like every other environmental regulation, is ditched for the renewables revolution – 120 trees will lose their boughs on one side, predisposing them to a slow death.
The transition costs to net zero are higher energy bills, ruined agricultural land and koalas murdered with blunt force trauma – and now our cultural soul.
Grief planted this memorial avenue. Greed will cut it down.
