Tree honouring Tony Abbott sawn off again in ‘extremely rare’ act of vandalism

Blue Mountains council to install CCTV after English oak chopped off at the weekend - itself a replacement for another stolen tree honouring former PM

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A tree honouring former prime minister Tony Abbott has been chopped down for the second time since it was planted just over two weeks ago, prompting a council to install CCTV so it does not happen a third time.

On August 5, Abbott had travelled to the Blue Mountains for a ceremony to plant the English oak in front of a crowd of 150 people at the Corridor of Oaks - a memorial park that has seen every Australian prime minister or their nearest living relative plant a tree since 1935.

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