Trees

Too heavy

Last bit, they thought it would go, but it was just too heavy! Ended up cutting two more pieces off. Taken this morning with my phone.

Yesterday it was taken down to just the stump and this huge bit of trunk. The elm was hollow right up the centre, but was still mostly solid at the base. It has actually suckered up the centre hollow!

Both rainbow lorikeets came to feed on my fence yesterday. Actually, they scared off the sulphur-crested cockatoo. I didn’t try to take photos, didn’t want to disturb them.

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Other Stuff

Aussie university fee deregulation

GetUp! is launching an ad about the proposed university fee deregulation.  Apparently, their research shows, many Australians do not know about the proposed deregulation. There are online petitions for other various concerns as well.

From GetUp! in my inbox yesterday… perhaps a little premature …

In major headlines yesterday, the Abbott Government is capitulating on billions in cruel cuts to Newstart and social services. That’s after GetUp members stepped up with donations to unmissable billboards, holding key senators to their budget promises.

billboard

But, from what I can see in the media, the government has split the original cuts into four proposals, hoping it will be more palatable to the Senate in the new form – at the same time saying they haven’t backed down and the cuts are the same.   Interesting days ahead.

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