🔵 Could I entice you with some offset credits?
Gore Hill Cemetery, bureaucratic loopholes, power in a protest...
Huw Bradshaw
October 31, 2025
⏱️ The 56th edition of our newsletter is a five-minute read.
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Morning all.
I’m back again — sorry you had to deal with Brad and his puns on Wednesday. Much to his disappointment, I won’t be titling this newsletter “Guess Huw’s Back”.
It’s been an interesting week. On Sunday morning, I was back on the site of the proposed Lane Cove data centre, where locals were scouring bushland for wildlife and flora to document. You can find out more about why they were doing that in the video section of this newsletter.
Among the people I chatted to that morning, some were quite humoured at the current government policies in place allowing for the clearing of land, so long as the respective offset credits were paid. When you’re trotting through sandstone forest along the Lane Cove River, it all seems a bit bureaucratic.
Enjoy the comic for this week.
🗞️ Let’s get into the rest of the news.
“What it means to us is that our most vulnerable — elderly, disabled and health restricted residents — will have access to an essential service”
HEARD THIS WEEK👂
🌳 Locals stand firm in fight to save acres of native Lane Cove bushland from data centre
Dozens of ecologists, conservationists and North Shore locals converged on a data centre building development site next to Lane Cove National Park on Sunday, with the goal of identifying and documenting as much of the flora and fauna as possible.
⏱️ Why now? In the words of Friends of Lane Cove National Park President, Tony Butteris, “to know what it is we might be losing”.
Read the full story here, or watch my video on it below.
🕸️ Where are the most haunted places on the North Shore?
“Most people have never seen a ghost, and never want or expect to,” the horror novelist Shirley Jackson once wrote.
“But almost everyone will admit that sometimes they have a sneaking feeling that they possibly could meet a ghost if they weren’t careful”.
Here on the North Shore there are some corners and dark rooms you might want to hesitate before, according to locals.
When we reached out for your stories earlier this month, here are the best we heard.
Read the full story by clicking on the link below.
📫️ Protestors win: Milsons Point post office to remain open
Following community uproar and a protest outside Kirribili house, Milsons Point residents have had their demands answered, with their local post office remaining in operation.
LOOKING NATIONALLY 👀
You might’ve already heard about it by now, but the Bureau of Meteorology’s latest website update hasn’t been a grand success.
After a weekend of severe weather across Victoria and Queensland, the Bureau’s redesigned website has continued to attract criticism from across the political spectrum.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud said locals in his regional Queensland electorate of Maranoa can no longer enter GPS coordinates for their specific properties, with searches now limited to towns or postcodes.
“As a result, families, businesses and farmers are unable to access vital, localised data such as river heights and rainfall information,” he said.
Environment Minister Murray Watt conceded the overhaul has fallen short of expectations and said he had spoken with the Bureau’s acting chief executive, Peter Stone, about fixing the issues as soon as possible.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen agreed, saying the website clearly is not up to scratch.
“The Bureau has work to do. It has lost community confidence in the new website. Minister Watt has made his expectations clear,” Bowen said.
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That’s all from me.
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Cheers,
Huw
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