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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDw-fKUBOXo<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This film is about the ongoing persecution of possums and their
defenders at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Catani</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Gardens</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> in St Kilda,
courtesy the local public purse.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The film maker rang me this morning to let me know that the
police had been called as she (again) stood in front of cherry pickers to stop
them putting bands on the trees which deprive the animals of shelter and also
prevent them from leaving the crowns of the trees where they sleep, in order to
feed, unless they jump (risking serious injury)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In case you think there ‘must be some good reason if
the ‘authorities’ are doing this’, consider the evidence in
the film.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have seen the palms and the possums and I have attempted
to get sensible explanations from the Port Philip Council but to no avail.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sheila Newman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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