Radiata Plateau

14 October 2019

In 2017 the Blue Mountains Conservation Society first met with me to tell me about Radiata Plateau, not far from Katoomba. The plateau has long been recovering radiata forest and for decades has more and more returned to its natural state, providing a crucial buffer between development and the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. People walk it assuming that it is publicly owned, but it was always privately owned, most recently by a transcendental meditation group. I shared all this with the then shadow environment minister, Tony Burke, two years ago a

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