Before one can educate and learn they must create acceptance of information rather than challenge your rights to question.
You find a great many here ready to gob off with their vast pool of ignorance.
Then they dig in, create some reasoning for their defence and most importantly seek allies as there's safety in numbers. Pack mentality.
I dare say it would be public record who did this job, however be assured the company that did it would be proud of it, and proud to not have even enquired it was protected, and they my friend are prolific contractors to Q-Build. You have even witnessed so called "qualified arborists" topping trees.
I am not surprised as I know, I live here, I hear the crap daily, I have customers ring and inform me of malpractices. The job I did around the corner from that school the customer asked if pruning like that was OK?
People are bamboozled here as the trees on govt land display abominations the general public has difficulty accepting as right.