Lord mayor makes last-ditch effort to save Stewart Avenue fig trees

Michael Parris
Updated July 14 2020 - 4:23pm, first published 3:20pm
CHOP CHOP: Deputy lord mayor Declan Clausen and lord mayor Nuatali Nelmes next to one of the trees they have asked the government to preserve.
CHOP CHOP: Deputy lord mayor Declan Clausen and lord mayor Nuatali Nelmes next to one of the trees they have asked the government to preserve.

Newcastle lord mayor Nuatali Nelmes has made an 11th-hour bid to save three large fig trees in Stewart Avenue before Transport for NSW starts work on widening the road on Sunday.

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Michael Parris

Michael Parris

Journalist

Michael Parris reports on politics for the Newcastle Herald. He started at the Herald in 1994 after working in the ABC Newcastle newsroom. Michael spent much of his career as a sub-editor before moving into political reporting in 2017. He was a finalist in the Sports Australia national media awards for his stories about a male-only tennis club in Newcastle. He has covered NSW and federal elections, state and federal budgets and local politics. He has also written extensively about the COVID-19 pandemic with a special focus on data analysis and the effects of lockdowns on the Hunter community.

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