http://www.smh.com.au/environment/by-the-time-we-wake-up-to-it-its-going-to-be-too-late-new-landclearing-codes-stoke-fears-of-wildlife-loss-20170822-gy1iv4.html
Tomalin says Liberal-Nationals governments since 2011 have "backed right off compliance".
"I'm pretty cranky about that – it led to a murder," he said, referring to the slaying of Office of Environment Heritage compliance officer Glen Turner in July 2014 by farmer Ian Turnbull about 10 kilometres from the Beefwood Farm.
Mr Turner's widow Alison McKenzie last week appealed to Berejiklian to delay the introduction of the new codes, fearing a sharp increase in clearing. They apparently would even make legal what the family of the late murderer – Turnbull died in March, less than a year into his 35-year jail term – had been doing on his land.
McKenzie and Turner's sister Fran Pearce said the codes would give farmers "the opportunity of a lifetime ... to clear what they like and get away with it", said in the letter to the Premier.
"I really thought it would be the opposite," McKenzie said. about the failure to preserve her husband's legacy. "I don't know how farmers with integrity are going to work with [the new codes]."
For their part, Anderson and her husband Lionel have had to call in the police after multiple threats – slashed car tyres, expensive machinery damage, and even a dangerous electrical cord left in a shed – by those apparently seeking to intimidate them for their outspoken opposition to illegal land clearing of fast-dwindling koala habitat.
"The clearing has never abated since Glen Turner died," she says. "It's almost as if no one gives a stuff."
