Cheap sale of wilderness on Crown Land
Today in Sydney, you could buy beautiful crown land full of lush vegetation for peanuts, literally – and a few endangered species if you felt like it. The Wilderness Society put on a mock auction to imitate how they felt the New South Wales Government was behaving. Over three million hectares of Crown Lands is set to be sold for three per cent of market value instead of going to the National Park estate. The sale of publicly owned wilderness has angered farmers who lease the land and environmental groups, who say the valuable plant life on the land should be conserved. Reece Turner is the Wilderness Society’s New South Wales campaigner who took part in acting out the auction today. He explains where the geography of the Crown Land up for sale.