In the 1970s, an unlikely coalition set in motion the first generation of environmental defending.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Hugh Nicholson’s ears pricked when he heard a truck in the nearby subtropical rainforest. It was a strange sound. No trucks had been in this forest. Nicholson decided to investigate.
This meant the harvesting of any valuable rainforest trees, then clearing and burning off the rest. The plan was to replant the area with eucalypts, which the Forestry Commission of NSW regarded as more valuable timber than the original “scrub”.Nicholson and his wife Nan were horrified. They were not hippies. They were rather conservative.
Protesters confront a bulldozer at Terania Creek, in the Byron Bay hinterland, 1979. After a four-week blockade, the NSW government halted logging in the area.The Nicholsons and the hippies in the nearby valleys never gave up the fight to preserve the pristine rainforest, creating a turning point in Australia’s environmental history. They lobbied the government for five years, but the NSW Forestry Commission was still determined to log.
A second campaign against logging was needed; this occurred in 1982 at nearby Mount Nardi. The government knew that the activists were not going away. But also, after the 1981 election, the then NSW premier, Neville Wran, rejigged his cabinet, removing the pro-logging politicians, whom he called the “plug uglies”. He now had the power to act.
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