{"id":446524,"date":"2010-03-18T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordonmoyes.com\/2010\/03\/19\/this-week-town-and-country\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T01:58:07","slug":"this-week-town-and-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/446524","title":{"rendered":"This week: Town and country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1. In the <span class=\"caps\">CBD<\/span>.  Many people and organisations were outraged that the bronze statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie was removed from the forecourt of Parliament House and left in the car park. The removal was to make way for new exit gates from the Parliament. No statements had been made of what will happen to the Statue.<\/p>\n<p>However, I can reliably inform you that the Cabinet is being asked to pay for a large sandstone plinth on which the statue of the great Governor will be re-erected, outside the Land Titles Office and adjacent to the Hyde Park Barracks which he had constructed at the St Mary&#8217;s Cathedral end of Macquarie Street. A fitting position for the statue.<\/p>\n<p>2. On the Central Coast.  I have commented several times on the seeming decrease in sparrows in our area. Last week I read there was being conducted a worldwide sparrow count because the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is showing population declines in many parts of Europe, with recent declines being particularly severe in urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>Changing house designs leaving no niches for nests, private gardens being converted to continuous housing and increased demand for housing, specifically from the infilling of green space within urban areas, are all reasons advanced for the decline in their numbers. Plus one other &#8211; unproven but suspected, radiation from mobile telephone towers in built up areas.  The bird specifically mentioned by Jesus is in serious decline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rev the Hon. Dr Gordon Moyes <span class=\"caps\">AC MLC<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. In the CBD. Many people and organisations were outraged that the bronze statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie was removed from the forecourt of Parliament House and left in the car park. The removal was to make way for new exit gates from the Parliament. No statements had been made of what will happen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}