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"Paula" deserves better than to live across the road from Richard Pennicuik.
While he's grabbing the limelight for his three-month protest to save a gum tree, she's fighting for her sanity, her privacy and her home.
Pennicuik has been conducting a one-person campaign to prevent the Gosnells Council from cutting down the last of 22 eucalypts that have been found in dangerous condition on Hume Road, Thornlie.
While he's been bleating about persecution, having now been warned by the council he'll cop a $5000 fine plus $500 a day, this old lady tells a tale of threats by his supporters, sleepless nights and vandalism of her property.
"I was told to go back into my house and die," she told me on talkback radio this week.
Who's breaking the law in this dispute?
Last I checked, the tree was owned by the council on council property.
That makes Pennicuik the offender, who has been trespassing since he climbed onto his perch on December 7 last year.
Despite his protestations, there is no evidence that the council is engaged in a hate campaign against trees.
It's a matter a public safety, following several incidents when large branches fell on properties and the roadway.
Council's initial plan to replace the 22 decaying eucalypts with 35 jacarandas has even been superseded, with an offer to choose replacement varieties.
It's time that common sense returned to Hume Road.
Richard Pennicuik and his tree hugging mates need to be brought down from their cloud cuckoo land.
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