Is There Nothing Matt Kean Can’t Do!

Vic Jurskis

Jan 17 2021

8 mins

NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean will protect the ‘dinosaur tree’ by edict. This comes a full millennium after King Canute demonstrated the futility of attempting to subdue natural forces by royal decree. Canute only got his feet wet, whereas NSW suffered death and destruction in our Black Summer, visited upon us by green ideology.

Kean said Wollemi Pines, which lived with dinosaurs, were saved by heroes from NPWS and RFS during the Gospers Mountain Fire. They’re supposedly threatened by more frequent and intense fires due to climate change and, less mentioned, by phytophthora root-rot fungus. But now, at the stroke of a pen, they have ‘special protection’ because he’s listed them as an “asset of intergenerational significance”.

Surveyor General Mitchell described the origin of what is now the Wollemi Wilderness:

A deposit, upwards of 1200 feet thick, forms the Blue Mountains … it is traversed by ravines, which increase in depth, in proportion as the…

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