Commissioner to send reports to TAMS ASAP

The Office of the Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment has reported the Commissioner's intention to send her draft reports and copies of complaints on the tallest tree and The Corroboree Tree to the Department of Territory and Municipal Services as soon as possible.

We have been collecting up-to-date opinions to supplement the original complaints on both trees. Tonight we sent an arborist's report commissioned by Ngambri elder Shane Mortimer on The Corroboree Tree to the Commissioner’s office.

CORROBOREE TREE

Last Thursday Shane Mortimer, descendant of James Ainslie and Iji Ngambri, came at very short notice to visit the tree with us, bringing George Villaflor and an arborist. See the report of this visit on the blog. This was an amazing visit. The Commissioner’s office was intending to send a representative but could not make it in the end.

Both Shane and the arborist Laurie Cullen were definite that conflicting reports about the soundness of limbs on the tree must be settled with correct testing before decisions are made that could affect the tree .

Shane has also had some early indications from the Commissioner that she will be recommending such measures as bollards around the park to stop traffic going in, and plantings under the tree with the grasses that were here before Ainslie brought his sheep through.

Shane is also arranging for an indigenous artist to paint the Corroboree tree.

His stories are fascinating and we have asked him if he would share them with you and he has agreed.

It looks like we may be heading for some wins with this tree, and even a reason to celebrate.

TALLEST TREE
Another very important arborist’s report is in the pipeline tonight, which talks about overall park management and the tall tree in particular.

Stay tuned!

CORROBOREE PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN – SUGGESTION BOX
Want to throw suggestions in? Now is a good time. Stay tuned.

VEHICLES IN THE PARK
There haven’t been many – any?  See, we said it could be done. Are there TAMS gnomes hiding under every bush? If this is their doing (with slight promptings but never mind) then they should feel very proud of themselves and we salute them.

The Car Invasion

We shall refer to the CT and ABC as ‘the other place’. See the letter in today’s C Times headed The Car Invasion, from Katherine Beauchamp. It makes the point that the ACT government must resolve any jurisdictional barriers it believes it has, to deal with the car invasion of Canberra’s public spaces.