As it puts the boot in to chooks Bankstown Council wins unlimited places at the launch of my new book.

Recently a friend wanted to put some chooks in his backyard out Bankstown way, in outer Sydney, NSW.  He called the Council to get some advice which was you can’t do this you can’t do that and amounted to a small telephone eruption of telephone red tape.

About 20 minutes after he put the phone down two Bankstown Council ordinance officers pulled up outside his house.

That’s service.

Except their message, delivered in bovver boy style, was to repeat the red tape advice but in a threatening and discouraging way.  Must have concrete floor.  Must be so many metres off the boundary fence.  Must be this and that.

The result?

He’s gone off the chooks idea.

So, Bankstown Council, the question for you is:  how do you plan to make your local government area sustainable?

How will you help people doing it tough to put bread and eggs on their table when sometimes they can’t afford to go out and buy it?

And did you know the growing, production, transport and waste of food is the second highest cause of climate pollution after coal fired power stations?  So the way to cut down that pollution is to promote local food growing.  You may like to buy my book, Sustainable Food, with the facts and data on this?

And because I reckon you can mend your ways I’m offering every council staff member and councillor an invitation to the launch of the book  next Monday by Senator Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs

Cluck on you, Council.

M