Brianne Tolj, Yahoo News 9 July 2025
Council defends decision to rip out 57 new plants on rural roadside
Sarah Hunter spent a lot of time and money planting a safe haven for local wildlife in front of her home. She then spent months fighting to keep it.
Adam Carey, The Age 29 04 2025
‘Green wedge’ council targets guerrilla gardener over native plantings
"On the side of a gravel road in rolling farmland just beyond Melbourne’s urban fringe, 57 native saplings have been sprayed with white paint, marking them for imminent removal."
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/green-wedge-council-targets-guerrilla-gardener-over-native-plantings-20250428-p5luo4.html
Radio interview : Chapel Lane Clean fill tipping history & enforcement outcomes
This is a pre-recorded radio interview by Denise Kuchmar of Plenty Valley FM local radio with affected landholder and local advocate Sarah Hunter. The interview broadcast on 20 June 2021. It looked at the history of cleanfill tipping in Doreen, Nillumbik in the Melbourne Green Wedge. and the way that this was dealt with by the local council Nillumbik Shire. The interview focused especially on the secretive actions of council which locked local landholders out from input into the land management decision that affected their properties, the creek and river system, and the community. More info https://doi.org/10.26188/32181819
Peter Rolfe, Herald Sun 20 07 2020
Green Wedges are at tipping point / Green wedges becoming ‘nightmare’ dumping grounds
They are meant to be protected patches of pristine land on the fringe of Melbourne, but residents in some Green Wedge areas claim they have been offered $1 million to have landfill dumped on their property, despite fears about contamination.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/calls-for-action-against-nightmare-landfill-dumps/news-story/0a26a4fc8e671b3bf2c398882eca4bc9
Peter Rolfe, Herald Sun 22 08 202
Green Wedge Dumps