'Don't do it!': Protesters 'scare off' buyers for heritage fig tree land

Kate McIlwain
Updated June 27 2020 - 4:11pm, first published 12:00pm
'Don't do it': Several dozen protestors turned up to witness the auction, bearing signs taking aim at the NSW Government for selling off the land. Picture: Adam McLean.
'Don't do it': Several dozen protestors turned up to witness the auction, bearing signs taking aim at the NSW Government for selling off the land. Picture: Adam McLean.

The Lake Heights public housing property which is almost completely covered by the canopy of a heritage-listed fig tree has been passed in at auction, after no bidders came forward to buy it at the public sale on Satruday.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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