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5 December 2019  Reading  Better than Happiness The True Antidote to Discontent Gregory Smith  I was reminded of the Black Summer of 2019 Bushfires. Pre Australia acknowledging the Covid Pandemic and the states implementing Lockdown Health Measures, we were tackling Bushfires around Sydney. The Air was so thick it got in engine of this Bus on Parramatta Road. The driver Stopped at Bus Stop (at Bridge Road School) and let passengers off.   The bus stop is opposite the Annandale Westconnex Dive site  [" Exhibition Start-End Date  12/08/2025 - 08/09/2025.  A rezoning proposal for the site at 160-186 Parramatta Road and 79-95 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Annandale is on exhibition for public feedback until Monday 8 September 2025 . The proposal from Landcom seeks to amend the planning controls in the Inner West Local Environmental Plan 2022 to rezone the site from General Industrial (E4) to Mixed Use (MU1) and increase height and floor space to facili...

The Turpentine(Syncarpia glomulifera) in Victoria Park  26 January 2020 Could this tree be tapping into Blackwattle Creek?  According to Sydney Barani:  "Blackwattle Creek was once a tidal watercourse that extended from its marshy headwaters at Glebe towards the suburbs of Redfern and Waterloo to the south. Lake Northam within Victoria Park is a remnant of this creek. It was one of a number of watercourses in the vicinity of the former Grose Farm Estate and the nearby suburb of Chippendale, and is a tangible reminder of the natural environment inhabited by Aboriginal people before the arrival of the Europeans." - https://www.sydneybarani.com.au/sites/lake-northam/  (viewed 19 August 2025) Located between City Road, Broadway and Lake Northam    " Lake in Victoria Park at Camperdown near Sydney University. It is a remnant of Blackwattle Creek which was once a tidal watercourse that extended from Glebe towards the suburbs of Redfern and Waterloo...

 UTS Business School, Social Enterprise Festival Various "Social Enterprises" demonstrated their wares at the Business School on the High Line at Haymarket. Childcare Centre in ABC Building Honeycomb product Pingala Childcare was once part of Office Buildings   and the ABC offered "long day care" Nina Gbor adding Glamour to reducing Textile Waste  https://www.auntysgingertonic.com.au/ Circle Paints https://softlanding.com.au/           Medieval Festival at the Petersham Bolo  Surprise awaited as at the popularity of this event.  Real Grass Fundraising at Petersham Bolo An Excuse to Dress Up

The tree. I nominated to City of Sydney Significant Tree Register is   The Turpentine(Syncarpia glomulifera) in Victoria Park near the corner of Broadway and city road and Broadway Bus stop. This mature tree, is particularly well pruned, over many years, and may not be recognisable as a Turpentine. So, Photo attached. The tree has significance for trees planted and benefits of good maintenance (iespecially good pruning) Turpentine Trees are local provenance(indigenous) to Sydney but the pruned form of this tree does not conform with descriptions of this tree. But leaves, flowers and seed pods are evidence that it is a Turpentine Tree. Turpentine wood is significant in the development of Sydney since the settlement by the first fleet. Note," Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion Conservation status in NSW: Critically Endangered Ecological Community " -Source https://threatenedspecies.bionet.nsw.gov.au/profile?id=10789 (link viewed 14 Aug 2025) I have...