Spring Gully Protection Group

06/11/2023

Community, culture and events from Sutherland Shire Council in Sydney’s south. This is a welcoming online space. 📍Dharawal Country.

06/11/2023

Watch the live stream of Council's meeting tonight. Transfer of Brighton St unmade road reserve at Spring Gully into Royal National Park will be decided.

Community, culture and events from Sutherland Shire Council in Sydney’s south. This is a welcoming online space. 📍Dharawal Country.

31/08/2023

Free delivery to Bundeena. Free coreflutes for YES supporters. Grab a T-shirt and bumper sticker too!

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Show your support for yes and help build the visibility of our movement. By proudly wearing a shirt, putting up a poster or a sticker on your car we encourage others to express their support. All proceeds help power this campaign.

14/03/2023

No swimming, no fishing in Spring Gully!

28/02/2023

Greens call for the NSW protected area network to reach 30% of land and water by 2030.

Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson will announce the Greens plan for expanding the protected area network.

11am Wednesday 1st March, 2023 Audley Dance Hall Cafe, Royal National Park.

Come along and meet Sue and discuss the future of the Royal National Park and the parks system with her.

11/05/2020

Vale Jack Mundey 1929-2020.

Had it not been for Jack Mundey and the Sydney green bans we would have lost so much more natural and built heritage to short-sighted developer greed. It's people like Jack who inspire us to fight for the conservation of nature and cultural heritage for the greater public good.

01/03/2019

There are plenty of honeyeaters in Spring Gully at the moment, especially the Eastern Spinebill.

Photo by Patrick Kavanagh.

12/02/2019

Governance at Sutherland Shire Council has descended into farce under Mayor Carmelo Pesce who has come out punching after Council decided to defer consideration of his proposed backflip that is not a backflip over Council's policy regarding Deeban Spit, adjoining the Royal National Park at Port Hacking. The Mayor has now resorted to verballing and defaming the Sutherland Shire Environment Centre, individual community members and his own fellow Councillors via social media.

The council is reconsidering its recommendation to the state government that boating and anchoring be banned from Deeban Spit.

10/02/2019

This story highlights the extreme fire danger issues that local residents already know and fear, including those documented in Sutherland Shire Council's submission to the NSW Government over the extreme fire danger posed by the proposed Bundeena Coast Eco Lodge at Spring Gully, which the local and district commands of the RFS sought to be refused but which the RFS planning assessment office approved without having asked for or considered the thousands of public submissions received by Sutherland Shire Council raising issues over non-compliance with fire planning policy.

Just last week we learnt of a threat of the withdrawal of RFS resources to the protection of properties in Bundeena and Maianbar at the edge of the Royal National Park.

In the opinion of this author, our local politicians are too focused on greenie bashing and too little focused on protecting the environment, life and particularly the world heritage values of the Royal National Park, Australia's first national park.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/warning-over-public-safety-in-national-parks-as-popularity-soars-20190207-p50wbg.html

Record numbers of people are visiting NSW national parks but there are fewer permanent rangers and managers to meet conservation goals and ensure public safety.