Eureka Stockade, Hume Road, Thornlie, Western Australia

as posted here

This evening I visited 'the tree' (right click here) on my way home from work and was surprised to see an ugly 'cyclone fence' erected around what the Gosnells City Council consider to be their property.


Eureka Stockade
Neighborhood: 100, Hume Road, Thornlie

Supporters in Richard Pennicuik's 'camp' see things differently and consider this to be a violation of their rights under Commonwealth Law.
Cameron Johnson still remains parked up the beloved yellow box tree. A number of supporters are within the fence.
All in 'base camp' are rallying as much support as they can muster and inciting as many as hundreds of people to surround the tree from first light tomorrow. They will welcome anyone who wants to turn up in their support.

If the tree gets cut down I will feel like wailing.
It is a magnificent, gracious indigenous yellow box tree who recently survived Perth's 'storm of the century' intact, without shedding as much as a leaf.
Richard, and his team have a number of arborists' reports attesting to the integrity and safety of the tree.
There are many dangerous trees in the City of Gosnells that the City Council has made no attempt to prune or cut down recently. There are trees endangering small children and traffic that the City Council has chosen to ignore.
They seem to be targeting the tree that has become known as the Thornlie Tree Man, Richard Pennicuik's tree.

This is a 'call to arms': to save this beautiful, old and indigenous Australian tree and to protect what many believe to be their constitutional rights against illegally operated City Councils.
For those of you interested in the constitutional argument refer to the links in my previous article which has been linked in the first sentence. here.
Of particular ecological interest are the daily movements of the indigenous birds that Richard daily observed during his 108 day vigil in the tree. Richard even noticed how the black cockatoos that are endangered traverse 'his tree' at particular times of the day


as posted here