March 30, 2015
A group of people in Newcastle have halted the coal rail line leading into the world’s largest coal export port, saying they would not let trains enter or leave until coal industry leaders committed to winding back coal exports, as their contribution to urgent global...
March 24, 2015
A number of friends who have taken action to save the Leard faced court today. Everyone who was heard today received Sec – 10A with no conviction or fine. Amongst them was Country Music legend, Luke O’Shea and his Dad. Media Release from our alliance...
March 19, 2015
From the desk of Murray ‘Muzz’ Drechsler… I heard about the Leard State Forest whilst I had been running mystery dingo tours out to the Pilliga State Forest, looking at the effects of coal seam gas on the area. That it was an open cut coal mine in a...
March 16, 2015
Before After A piece on the last 3 weeks of Whitehaven Coal’s Summer 2015 clearing of the Leard State Forest Grief; The smell of fallen trees; Sweet sap and diesel. With the Milky-way overhead, and a good few k to go, we can already smell the clearing. It is a...
March 9, 2015
Leard Forest Alliance Media Release: From Maules Creek to Mt Thorley, communities resist coal mining. MAULES CREEK 9/3/15 Despite both major parties affirming their commitment to the coal industry, the NSW public continues to show their strong opposition. This morning...
March 8, 2015
As International Women’s Day 2015 rolls on we’ve been reflecting on all the incredible women involved in this campaign – and how we can build more progressive feminist politics on the front lines in Australia.. no hard and fast answers but some great...
March 7, 2015
Media Release MAULES CREEK 7/3/2015 A group of over twenty people have stormed the Maules Creek Mine site today, halting clearing of the Leard State Forest. While a group has gathered at the entrance of the mine, a number of people have locked themselves to machines;...
March 4, 2015
A guest post by local Maules Creek community worker and horse trainer Ann-Marie Rasmussen, who yesterday backed up her words by suspending herself from a tree in the Leard Forest, holding up bulldozers clearing the forest for seven hours. There is...
March 3, 2015
Leard Forest Alliance media release MAULES CREEK March 3rd 2015 As Whitehaven Coal’s clearing for the controversial Maules Creek coal mine enters its third week, it has been disrupted yet again; Maules Creek community worker and horse trainer Ann-Marie...
March 1, 2015
– article w/ Andy Paine & FLAC crew From the 13th to the 18th of February, musicians, mischief makers and earth protectors from around the country converged on Maules Creek for a festival of resistance called Bat Attack. The musicians came from far and wide,...
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