March 13, 2016
STUDENTS SHUT DOWN COAL EXPORTS AT WILLOW TREE WILLOW TREE, 13 MARCH 2016: Coal trains have been stopped from Whitehaven’s coal mines between Maules Creek and Willow Tree. Four students from ANU have occupied a coal train. They are demanding that Environment minister...
March 8, 2016
MEDIA RELEASE Women Stand in Unity on International Women’s Day to Save Aboriginal Sacred Site More photos available: http://alturl.com/9nctg Maules Creek, 8th March 2016: United with Gomeroi Women on International Women’s Day, three women, Tash Jones, Clarity “Jen...
February 19, 2016
BOGGABRI, 19 FEB 2016: Anti-coal protests have returned to the Leard State Forest with a group of 30 gathering at the gates to Whitehaven and Idemitsu’s Tarrawonga coal mine. Both Whitehaven and Idemitsu have approval to clear the critically endangered Leard...
February 15, 2016
Gomeroi Traditional Custodians were today joined by concerned locals and supporters near the gates of Whitehaven’s Maules Creek Coal Mine in the Leard State Forest for a traditional ceremony. The Emu Ceremony was supposed to be held at the Gomeroi sacred site, Lawlers...
October 30, 2015
Media Release put out in conjuction with our Leard Forest Alliance partners. SYDNEY, 30 October 2015: Protesters have again converged for controversial coal miner Whitehaven Coal’s AGM in Sydney. The group of 50 have staged a mock ‘clearance sale’ pointing to...
September 28, 2015
Media release from the Leard Forest Research Node 24 September, 2015 Residents of Maules Creek are so fed up with the noise coming from Whitehaven’s Maules Creek coal mine they have taken it upon themselves to conduct their own study on noise levels and the impact to...
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