Court orders stop to tree pruning - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Looks official now. The courts have stopped utility tree pruning until next week. Looks like the utility crews will have a holiday.
What you need now is a good storm to knock the power out at the court house when a tree takes out an electric transformer or two.
Here in the states, the Missouri legislature is looking into banning the planting of trees anywhere within the utility's right-of-way. They have had too many outages in recent years due to storms. And no one seems to be terribly opposed to the idea.