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Sydney developer gets 'slap on the wrist' after illegally clearing hundreds of trees to build $3 million mansion (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 9 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/sydney@aussie.zone

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[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I heard while in mining that breaches of dust and noise result in fines that act more like a relaxation cost when price of coal is high enough.

At some point a law is more like a purchase price for the wealthy when a final sales value of a home could result surpass 5 mill and the "relaxation" fine is only $50k.

The wealthy value time. Time is an equaliser. Put them in jail. 6 months for every tree past the 5 that might have been allowed in 2008.

The council said it was too complex for them and somehow there was no mention of incompetence in the article.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I’m guessing it got too complex for the council the moment people started wondering what was in the brown paper bags they were all holding.