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Check with your local shire.
Here in Queensland the Fencing act of 1958 (yes thats the one we work to) states that any branches crossing your boundary from a neighbouring property may be removed (at the point of boundary) without notice to the neighbour and here's the best part, if you dont want the branches or material you can simply drop it over the fence, it isnt yours to dispose of if you dont want.
I had a couple of slash pines on my boundary and nothing would grow under them, I hated them but they were technically on my neighbours property, she refused to do anything about them when I made a reasonable request so I had an arborist come in and remove all branches from my side of the trees, I disposed of the branches (a pile bigger than our house I might add) even though I could have dumped them on her property, the funny thing was it made the tree's so heavy on one side she was forced to have them removed as they started leaning towards her house. Sometimes I think justice can be served. I now have a much better view of the eastern sky from my backyard too.
Dennis.
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