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Mike Rann loves trees - he promised an 'urban forest' before the last election - but not when they're in the way of development, especially when the developer has already donated to the ALP.

Anne Moran loves Anne Moran, bugger trees. Her appearance on ABC Stateline 9-10-09 mourning the Botanic Park massacre was farcical. Adelaide City Council has lost hundreds of significant trees by sheer neglect ("setting an example on water conservation") and has cut down dozens of others to oblige promoters renting the city's parks.

I watched ACC officials and Fringe management peg out string around a 100-year-old Monterey pine in Rundle Park: next day I saw it cut down to create space for a beer tent. Three magnificent silver birches in Victoria Square were axed to enlarge the Tour Down Under carpark.
A dozen trees in Rymill Park disappeared overnight (with flowerbeds planted over their stumps by morning) for the Horse Trials (although designing the course around the trees was part of the contract).
Two street trees near Adelaide Oval were cut down to give motorists a blurred view of the Bradman statue (Bradman, a keen gardener, would have been mortified).
ACC allowed Botanic Gardens management to axe six majestic grey gums in the old RAH carpark to make way for a 'health garden'. The bastardry and hypocrisy are nauseating.
Anne Moran and the ACC Development Assessment Panel refused permission to chop down the Aleppo pines outside the Zoo because they knew it would go straight to the Development Assessment Commission, Rann's rubber stamp.
Not one member of the DAP visited the site before or after - or they'd have seen that 15, not six trees as approved, were destroyed, and the reasons given for their removal were totally spurious.
I can't get Tim Llloyd, so-called 'heritage' writer for The Advertiser, to report one word of this.
The common response is, "Oh, but we've planted x-thousand new trees" - i.e,seedlings. So they have. They never come back to water them, and all die - but there they are in the annual report, 'x-thousand new trees'.
By permission: Trevor Farrant - Hackney