Mayoral wrap-up of Council Aug 9th 2022

Here’s Mathew Hatcher - Mayor Eurobodalla Shire Shire putting today’s Council Meeting on the record.
 

Mayoral minute to ensure Council will notify all neighbours of any lodged DAs with variations to setbacks.
 

Letter to NSW Government to examine Forestry Corporation logging operations in the shire to ensure best practice.
 

Tuross Community Garden lease to be renewed. Councillors encourage community groups to access grants for financial assistance.
 

Read the full agenda (plus the minutes and meeting recording later this week) at www.esc.nsw.gov.au/meetings
 

VIDEO: ESC
 
 
 Editors Note: The record in the background is John Williamson – The Smell of Gum Leaves that features the track The Trees Have Now Gone
 
 

 
 More importantly for this editor that album has John Williamson doing a cover of Mike Rudd's "I'll be gone" which is iconic in the history of Australian rock having been a major hit for Spectrum.
 
 

VIDEO: I'll be gone - Spectrum. Spectrum also performed under the alter ego, Indelible Murtceps (Specrum spelt backwards)
 
 After Spectrum and Indelible Murtceps disbanded, Putt and Rudd formed Ariel.
 
 Ariel had a mate of mine in it Tim Gaze − guitar, lead and backing vocals (Tim was ex-Kahvas Jute and Tamam Shud)
 
 This is Tim in 2017 doing a Morning of The Earth from the original soundtrack to the 1971 movie.
 
 

 Back to John Williamson:
 
 What am I gonna do?
 What about the future?
 Gotta draw the line without delay
 Why shouldn't I get emotional?
 The bush is sacred
 Ancient life will fade away
 Over the hill I go
 Killing another mountain
 Gotta fill the quota
 Can't go slow
 Huge machinery
 Wiping out the scenery
 One big swipe like a shearers blow

Rip rip wood chip
 Turn it into paper
 Throw it in the bin
 No news today
 Nightmare dreaming
 Can't you hear the screaming
 Chainsaw I saw more decay

Remember the axeman knew their timber
 Cared about the way they brought it down
 Crosscut black but tallowood and cedar
 Build another bungalow pioneer town
 I am the bush and I am koala
 We as one go hand in hand
 I am the bush like Banjo and Henry
 Its in my blood gonna make a stand

Rip rip wood chip
 Turn it into paper
 Throw it in the bin
 Don't understand
 Nightmare dreaming
 Can't you hear the screaming
 Stirs my blood gonna make a stand