{"id":93802,"date":"2025-08-25T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93802\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:07:11","slug":"koutsantonis-to-resign-if-tree-removal-claims-proven-true-the-greek-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93802\/","title":{"rendered":"Koutsantonis to resign if tree removal claims proven true \u2013 The Greek Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure and Transport Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/greekherald.com.au\/news\/koutsantonis-calls-on-speirs-to-relinquish-honourable-title-after-drug-conviction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tom Koutsantonis <\/a>has declared he will resign if opposition claims about the number of trees to be cut down for the controversial North Adelaide LIV Golf course prove accurate.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Party has alleged 5,400 trees would need to be removed to make way for the Greg Norman\u2013designed course, slated to relocate from Grange Golf Club by 2028. <\/p>\n<p>Liberal candidate Frank Pangallo cited a report estimating \u201c60 per cent\u201d of the 9,000 trees across existing golf courses could be lost, calling it a \u201cvanity project\u201d in the wrong location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019ll be action here at the Park Lands that South Australians have not seen before, all for a vanity project and a golf course we don\u2019t need,\u201d Pangallo said.<\/p>\n<p>Koutsantonis rejected the figure, insisting there are no finalised design plans and branding the claim \u201ca lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not true, I don\u2019t know where they got this from,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m prepared to go as far as to say that if this number is accurate, I\u2019ll resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/south-australia\/liberals-claim-5400-trees-need-to-be-cut-to-accommodate-north-adelaide-liv-golf-course-as-tom-koutsantonis-stakes-his-job-on-it-being-a-lie\/news-story\/c1d28bcdab3c6b0b4050ed216a925b50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Advertiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infrastructure and Transport Minister Tom Koutsantonis has declared he will resign if opposition claims about the number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-93802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}