Alan Veacock, Cumbalum
What an outstanding effort by Liberal MLC Catherine Cusack, to stand up to the premier and a belligerent National Party to thwart what would have been a death sentence for what remains of the koala population in NSW.
Take a bow Catherine, you have done a great service for the koalas and your community that passionately support them.
John (Pork) Barilaro and Clarence MP Chris Galaptus claiming ‘farmers deserve certainty’ is farcical. Do the koalas deserve extinction? One has only to watch great programs like Landline on our poorly funded ABC to see that a growing number of farmers are actually replanting koala trees on their property in an effort to reintroduce these iconic marsupials.
If the NSW government was serious about koala conservation they should be paying all relevant landowners compensation for their conservation efforts.
The National Party is now in serious decline. They have become little more than an agent for the fossil fuel industry, and the irrigation industry, and with this latest effort, the property developers wanting to clear koala habitat. They continue to pay the price at the ballot box and still they refuse to embrace modern environmental policies or to accept anthropogenic climate change as the existential threat to the very people they claim to represent.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
