Saturday, November 24, 2012

Mia Dyson – Jesse

by John Hardaker

ARIA nominee Mia Dyson is shining a light on a dark corner of Australia’s history, the practice of forced adoptions, brought to the forefront with the Victorian government’s recent apology to victims.

Her latest single “Jesse” was written last year for her new album The Moment (which is vying for an ARIA Award later this month) after fan Lesley Pearse approached her after a show to ask whether she could write a song about her plight.

“Lesley’s story had a profound effect on me,” said Dyson. “As an unwed mother in the early 70′s, she was sent to live out her pregnancy away from family and friends, told she was an unfit parent and coerced by social workers into signing papers to hand her baby over under immense pressure.”

“I was shamed into giving up my baby and told that if I loved the child I would do what was ‘right’ – relinquish my baby to a married couple,” explained Lesley Pearse. “I was told I would ‘never be able to have any contact with my baby again’.”

“The idea that this was not just a one-off, but a systemic atrocity that has affected both mothers and their children for decades after really shocked me,” said Dyson. “I was driven to write Jesse as I think that understanding and sharing their story is the best tribute we can give to these brave women as we move towards a national apology in 2013.”

‘Jesse’ is the third single from Mia’s acclaimed fourth album The Moment which has been labelled as a “career defining record” (Herald Sun) and “an epic piece of work” (Rhythms).

Via Flickr:
We stayed at my Uncles Fishing Shack at Tweed Heads and took Jesse everywhere for a holiday. Jesse was six months old in 1989.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

We have taken a sabatical to the other blog! On The Hill Gilayjun..

On the Hill 2011 and 2012 have now been combined and are back at their original home with a new look and this blog will sit and just be along side and perhaps have the odd post when I feel it may be necessary or until this year ends.  So ciao for now..
On the Hill - Gilayjun

IMG 2222  Dawn Rox

 All things have a full ending and this last weekend was also one of those times.  My children's father who I spent most of my life with re married to someone called Catherine and I am told she is a nice person.

This is good is it?  I don't really think so but it is not my business because I am considered to be not a nice person for some reason.  How did this happen?   Who has told the biggest fattest lies then? 

I wasn't the drug addict and I wasn't the drunk and I wasn't the gambler, so how did this happen?

I am really not sure but I just hope it all falls to pass because that would be true Karma then. 
I speak truth not lies and I will be avenged  on this score just you wait and see.  I am fairly spot on with the manifestation of actuality and I have a precise track record and they know this.  So now I write it down and it becomes even more powerful!  I avenge thee and I ask that thee be not spared from thy transgressions of past covenant agreement.
I ask the angels in heaven to lift the veil and gently swish the cord and then the personal hell will be passed through and on it will go.  Until this happens, the word will be enough to effect the most bizarre of factors to come into play!  I will sit and watch the terror of your mind as it tears your very life apart. I will see truth and the truth will see me,  I will not rest until this takes place.
Image of Dawn in Urunga  by Mezza
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Monday, August 27, 2012


Fullerton Cove Blockade Family Fun Day, a set by Lock the Gate on Flickr.

Fullerton Cove Blockade Family Fun DayFullerton Cove north of Newcastle is a precious place to keep them out of. People power is all that will stop these mining mongrels and their mongrel drill Pad Sites! Get out you have no part DART ENERGY..

Fullerton Cove Blockade Family Fun Day

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Fullerton Cove community blockade against Dart Energy's coal seam gas pilot drilling.

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

THERE IS NO TRUTH, THERE IS ONLY PERCEPTION.

Truth is unchanging, like the elephant, but how one approaches the truth will change ones perception of it.

SAM 8046 Urunga Antiques & Collectables.

Things are never quite as they seem.  There is always more to the truth of a matter.  We all have our perceptions of the truth and that is dependent upon how we see a situation and the messages it sends to our brains.  There is always two sides to the story and the truth is somewhere in between.

The Antique Shop in the Industrial Area of Urunga is a secret that needs to be spoken about and then it will be a popular place once the shire realizes the secret hiding there.


The story of the six blind men and the elephant.

Each of the blind men stand in front of the elephant and attempt to determine what an elephant looks like by feeling different parts of the elephant's body. The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar; the one who feels the tail says the elephant is like a rope; the one who feels the trunk says the elephant is like a tree branch; the one who feels the ear says the elephant is like a hand fan; the one who feels the belly says the elephant is like a wall; and the one who feels the tusk says the elephant is like a solid pipe.

The king explains to them:

“You are all right. The reason each one of you is telling it differently is because you have all touched a different part of the elephant. The elephant has all of the features you mentioned.”

This is supposed to resolve the conflict, and the story is used to illustrate the principle that truth can be stated in different ways. We feel, however, that this tale is better used to demonstrate how humans are stuck, not in their misunderstanding of what the truth is, but in the way that they approach the truth. If each of these men would have kept their hands moving and continued their search until they were reasonably sure that they had observed the entire elephant, none of them would have given such a silly description. And this is often the way humans approach things, they draw conclusions too quickly before having a whole picture.


Humans are lazy when it comes to searching for the truth and too often stop at the first glance, or in the case of the blind men and the elephant, at first touch. The second mistake that these men make, which is mirrored by humans, is that they do not communicate with one another to find out what the others are discovering. If two findings contradict one another then the search is not over. These men could have communicated with one another and shown the various parts to one another in order for them all to have a better idea of what an elephant actually looks like.

Had these men kept looking, and communicated with one another, all six of them would have had a very good idea of what an elephant actually looks like. Truth is unchanging, like the elephant, but how one approaches the truth will change ones perception of it. The greatest lesson of this tale is not that the truth is unable to be found, on the contrary, the lesson is that the truth is found from an impeccable search and an open communication with others who are searching for the like!

From “The Manual of Spiritual Living, Part 2: The Eve of Transformation”
Rest In Peace to Neil Armstrong who passed away today, he was reputed to have been the first man on the moons surface in the 1969.

Image by Mezza - Antique Furniture at Urunga Antiques
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

There is no better test of a mans integrity than his behaviour when he is wrong.

Marvin Williams...

IMG 0846 Urunga Bowls Club

Graciousness is not one of the traits usually shown when people are wrong.  They can  flap about madly and it appears very plainly  that it doesn't sit well with a person to be wrong in most cases.  It is a physical change that occurs in the body.  The person can feel the vibration inside of themselves, it goes high when a correct thing is done and it spirals down when an incorrect decision has been made.

I have seen a lot of spiraling down inside of these types of premises and all licensed public houses.  I have seen my life eaten away with the pushing of button's by a man who had a serious gambling issue.  My ex husband had very big issues.  He can't not accuse me of this discretion and I fear it will surface again and he already owes $20,000.00 to Mr Max Patrick of the Patrick family.  

Catherine Zita Jones could not contain herself from gasping at the site, and neither will this Catherine be able to hold back the sleeping Tiger as he pursues his prey under the stealth of surprise.  Just waiting for an opportunity to spring and then that will be that and it will all  be over.  I predicted Robyn and he would finish and I predict that he and Catherine will meet their demise inside a public gaming house.

Image by Mezza - Urunga Bowling Club
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Friday, August 24, 2012

BLOCKADE CONTINUES, FAMILY FUN DAY PLANNED AT FULLERTON COVE

Fullerton Cove Blockade Against CSGFullerton Cove Blockade Against CSG (Photo credit: lockthegate)

Update from Fullerton cove ....Media Release 23rd August 2012, 3.50pm
BLOCKADE CONTINUES, FAMILY FUN DAY PLANNED AT FULLERTON COVE
Sunday 26th August, 10am onwards.
Fullerton Cove Coal Seam Gas Blockade (397 Fullerton Cove Rd, Fullerton Cove)


The Fullerton Cove Residents Action Group is inviting all members of the public to a Family Fun Day this Sunday, at the site of the community blockade against Dart Energy's coal seam gas drilling project.

Fullerton Cove Blockade Against CSGFullerton Cove Blockade Against CSG (Photo credit: lockthegate)
The blockade has continued through a fourth day today and two local women at the blockade, Julie Wood and Lisa McDonald, have now been locked to a tractor at the site for more than 24 hours.

“Our family fun day will include rides, music, food, and balloons. Local Fullerton Cove business OFA Showstar will donate a jumping castle and a small Ferris wheel for the event. Osborne is one of many Newcastle and Port Stephens businesses who have overwhelmed us with their support for our cause”, said spokesperson Lindsay Clout.

“This is a great opportunity for people to come down and visit our blockade, and talk to the Fullerton Cove residents about the the threat that coal seam gas poses to the community and the environment.”

The public is also invited to attend a talk on the impacts of CSG tonight, at 7pm, at the blockade site. “Peter Martin, former CEO of Rothschild Australia Asset Management and now convenor of the Southern Highlands Coal Action Group, will visit the blockade site tonight to discuss his recent tour of United States, where he witnessed first hand the toxic legacy of the coal seam gas industry.” said Clout.

“This issue is much bigger than Fullerton Cove. Coal Seam Gas has left a trail of destruction in the United States, and will do so in Australia if State and Federal governments continue to ignore community demands,” said Mr Clout.

“The support for our blockade has been huge. Every day dozens of new people visit the site. Every day we get more donations from businesses around Port Stephens and Newcastle.

We would like to thank the following businesses for their valued support during the week: Stockton Family Meats, Rudders Cottage Bakery Stockton, Stockton Family Fruits, Browns Butchers Raymond Terrace, McDonalds Williamtown, Stockton IGA, Metro Garage Williamtown, Hunter Organics, Natural Tucker, The Fresh Ingredient, Merewether Food World, Festival IGA Stockton, Domino's Pizza Raymond Terrace, Hunter Meat Wholesalers Stockton” he said.
 English: Advertisement for sale allotments for...English: Advertisement for sale allotments for "Port Stephens City", on the site of the modern day North Arm Cove, New South Wales (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

RBA Official knew of Corruption

English: RBA signEnglish: RBA sign (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A memo obtained by the ABC's 7.30 program shows that at least one senior official at the Reserve Bank knew of allegations that RBA subsidiary companies were involved in corruption prior to the allegations being made public.
Eight former senior executives from two firms owned by the RBA are facing allegations that they paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to win bank-note printing contracts overseas.
But a major part of this scandal has remained hidden until now, and it has never been the subject of any inquiry.
English: Reserve Bank of Australia located on ...English: Reserve Bank of Australia located on London Circuit in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It concerns what top officials in the Reserve Bank itself knew about bribery and corruption inside the RBA's subsidiaries well before the scandal became public and police began their investigation in 2009.
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens has told Parliament several times since then that the RBA was in the dark about corruption and bribery inside the firms Securency and Note Printing Australia (NPA) before the 2009 expose.
But 7.30 has obtained damning new evidence that contradicts those claims and is likely to reignite debate about whether the Federal Government needs to call a broad inquiry into the affair.
The memo reveals that former deputy governor Ric Battellino was advised of the alleged illegal behaviour at a meeting with a whistleblower in 2007.

The Treasury Building, Parkes, Australian Capi...The allegations were then detailed in a five-page memo which was sent to Mr Battelino.
Dr David Chaikin, a former adviser to the Attorney-General's department, said he would rate the memo as a "smoking gun" because of the nature of the warnings.
"For example, it was being stated that the company secretary heard first-hand from agents that they were making corrupt payments to politicians and political parties," he told 7.30.
"All these are clear warning signs of corruption and you don't need to be an expert to heed those warning signs."
Securency and NPA are alleged to have bribed foreign officials to help win contracts to print polymer bank notes in Malaysia and Nepal.
"This is not about individuals accused of corruption. This is about what the RBA knew about that corruption," Dr Chaikin said.
"It goes to the integrity of the most important financial body in Australia."

Secret meeting

In June 2007, two years before the scandal broke in the media, a secret meeting was held at the bank's head office in Martin Place in Sydney.
Bank sources have revealed who was there: Mr Battellino and Brian Hood, who was the company secretary of NPA at the time.
At the Martin Place meeting, Mr Hood revealed he had serious concerns about probity issues, which had not been adequately addressed inside the RBA firm.
Six months ago, Mr Stevens was asked if the Reserve Bank was directly told of the probity concerns inside NPA.
"If you are asking whether the person in question wrote a letter or something to the bank, I do not think that he did, no," Mr Stevens said.
But in fact, shortly after the Martin Place meeting, Mr Hood set out his concerns in great detail in the memo addressed to Mr Battellino.
The memo, given to 7.30 by RBA sources, details what Mr Hood saw as corrupt behaviour involving NPA and "extraordinary" multi-million-dollar payments to its overseas agents.
Among the agents was Abdul Kayum, a Malaysian arms dealer who the memo revealed was working for both NPA and Securency.
The memo to Mr Battellino reveals the payments made by the RBA firm to its Malaysian agent had been used to make "payment to others - including officials... and politicians".
The agent had said that "dealing through such networks was the accepted way of doing business in that part of the world".
The same agent had asked for "commission funds owing to him to be directed to an ANZ Brisbane account" but would "not explain what position/role the nominated individual had".
The memo documents similar concerns about commissions paid to agents in Nepal.
Mr Hood reported that the Nepali agent had "complained there was little left for him after servicing others", apparently because the Nepali "agent made donations to political parties".
The memo also reveals NPA had deliberately misled the Nepal Central Bank about how much it was paying its agent there.

'Out of control'

7.30 showed the Hood memo to former United Nations corruption fighter Howard Whitton, who says it revealed an "extraordinary way of doing business".
"The core message was that this organisation is out of control, we are doing bad things or illegal things in other countries and we are covering it up," he said.
Mr Hood reported to Mr Battellino that when he had earlier raised bribery concerns inside NPA, he was warned by the firm's managing director Chris Ogilvy - who was also a Securency director - to "back off".
Mr Whitton says the RBA should have immediately involved the police.
"No question at all. They have clear evidence from a responsible official who has a legal duty to advise the RBA as the parent of Note Printing Australia that corrupt conduct, criminal conduct was happening on their watch, and it seems to me that it is obvious the AFP should have been called in at that point," he said.
Dr Chaikin agrees the police should have been called in.
"I think the most striking thing is the company secretary was pleading to the Reserve Bank for assistance," he said.
"He and the rest of the Australian community has been let down by what has happened."

About face

The RBA did not call in the Federal Police. They did seek advice from a corporate law firm.
NPA's foreign agents were quietly sacked in 2007 and soon after some of NPA's senior mangers - including Mr Hood - were pushed out. It would take months for Federal Police agents to discover the Hood memo after their inquiry began in May 2009.

Almost two years later, Mr Stevens told Parliament's economics committee nothing about the Hood memo. Mr Battellino was sitting next to Mr Stevens at the time.
"We are examining ourselves. A question would be: is there any way that anyone in the RBA ever knew anything about anything? I am pretty sure the answer to that is no," Mr Stevens said at the time.
Earlier this year, two weeks after Mr Battellino retired from the RBA, Mr Stevens changed his story.
"I think I said that the bank was aware of that but that it was not in writing. Actually, that was not quite true," he said.
"I have been reminded while we have been talking that, in fact, the deputy governor invited that person to put that in writing, which he did, and give it to the deputy governor."
Mr Stevens and Mr Battellino declined 7.30's requests for an interview.
7.30 received a statement from the Reserve Bank which referred to action taken by Note Printing Australia on the corruption allegations.
But that statement does not address the issue of what the bank itself knew.
Read the RBA response below.

Images from Wikipedia - because I have none of  the RBA.


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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Lock the Mid North Coast - Latest News

IMG 2922 Good People - Lock the Gate Alliance
As you may know there are several large mining projects are being planned for the Kempsey, Bellingen and Nambucca local government areas by companies such as Anchor Resources, Emu Nickel and Precious Metal Resources. This newsletter is to help keep everyone updated on the latest developments since our initial public meeting in Macksville  
Local Council Elections 
We have recently invited all Council Candidates in the Nambucca, Bellingen and Kempsey electorates to complete a short online questionnaire to state publicly where they stand on the issue of mining before your community votes on Saturday Sept 8th. We are publishing the responses as they come in and they make for interesting reading.  The reponses can be found on our website here 


Emu Nickel fail to raise $60 million for Hillgrove Antimony mine
We may have just had our first big win!! But it maybe only a temporary one. As you know Emu nickel were poised to buy the nasty Straits Antimony mine at Hillgrove and swing back into major production (see below) http://www.emunickel.
However we have just discovered they failed to raise the $60 million capital required for the project http://www.
metalbulletin.com/Article/
3026667/Emu-Nickel-fails-to-raise-full-60m-for-Hillgrove-
antimony-mine.html
We do wonder if dragging up the history of the Hillgrove Mine had anything to do with this ?

Sad history of Antimony mining revealed at Kempsey

Macleay River valley NSWMacleay River valley NSW (Photo credit: Wikipedia)We have recently uncovered a lot more information about the extent of the toxic spills into the Macleay River from the Hillgrove Antimony mine which underscores why we are campaigning so hard to try and stop further Antimony mining that could impact on the catchment areas of the Macleay, Nambucca and Bellingen rivers. We urge everyone to read the Kempsey Council minutes which shows the impact and cost to the community that the Antimony Mining operation at Hillgrove has caused over the years, and the serious risk to public health that it continues to pose.
http://www.kempsey.nsw.gov.au/
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searWords=antimony&Send=Go

Precious Metal Resources lodge two more exploration applications 

Showing their intentions to secure all the available group1 Mineral Exploration licenses in their search for Antimony and Gold, Precious Metal Resources Pty Ltd have just lodged two new exploration applications for Group1 Metalic Minerals in the Kempsey/Armidale area. (ELA 4607 and ELA 4608)

More details can be found by using the NSW Goverments online titles viewing application MinView
http://www.resources.nsw.gov.au/geological/online-services/minview

Sharyn Munro to speak at Bellingen on Friday Sept 7th
“Rich Land, Wasteland has to be the most important book for everybody to read in 2012″
For nearly a year Sharyn Munro travelled through rural Australia, visiting communities in coal-mining areas. She found a war zone.
Here, ‘at the coalface’, towns and districts are dying — homeowners and farmers forced out by mining, broken in spirit and in health, or else under threat, in limbo and battling the might of the multinationals. Incidences of asthma, cancers and heart attacks show alarming spikes in communities close to coal mines and coal power stations, yet the government seems powerless (or unwilling) to act.
Notice for a meeting about Sharyn Munro's book...Notice for a meeting about Sharyn Munro's book: Rich land, Wasteland (Photo credit: kateausburn)Once reliable rivers and aquifers are drying up or become polluted, once fertile agricultural land is becoming unusable. But the big mostly foreign-owned mining companies continue to push on with their coal rush and government continues to assist and protect them: ever more mining licences are granted, ever bigger mines are opened. In this life-changing book, 
Sharyn exposes the real story of coal: how people are hurting, and rebelling, as coal pushes into hitherto unthinkable areas; how the true costs outweigh any benefits; and how all of us will ultimately pay the price.
Come and hear Sharyn talk at the Bellingen Public Library on Friday 7th Sept at 10am - It's a free event.
com.au/event/rich-land-waste-
land-book-launch-at-bellingen/

Seed Group Meetings

Since our initial public meeting at Macksville we have held several well attended 'seed group' meetings for the Nambucca and Bellingen groups to develop campaign strategies.  If you would like to volunteer and particapte in the future development of the Lock the Mid North Coast campaign we would love to hear from you and you can discuss idea's and find out about our future meetings on the members forums here (you must be sign up as a member for free first) 

As Tony Abbott made his way over the Bellinger River on Sunday, chants of “Lock the Gate, Lock the Gate” rang out. Riding alongside Member for Cowper, Luke Hartsuyker, Mr Abbott was participating in the NAB Cycle Challenge during a weekend visit to the Coffs Coast. The peaceful and colourful anti-mining protest took place as the riders came off Lavenders Bridge, with around 80 men, women and children taking up the chant.
Many were part of a newly formed group, ‘Lock the Gate Mid North Coast’ which is opposing several large scale antimony and gold mining projects on the Dorrigo plateau and in the Nambucca and Bellinger Valley.
Spokesman for Lock the Gate, Glen Schaefer, said the group wanted to take the opportunity to let Tony Abbott know their feelings. “We wanted to take the opportunity to let Tony Abbott know that the Bellingen and Nambucca communities are strongly opposed to any form of mining in our catchment areas that could potentially contaminate the Macleay, Nambucca, Kalang or Bellinger Rivers, or harm our prime agricultural lands,” Mr Schaefer said.
But Mr Hartsuyker, who invited Mr Abbott as a special guest on the charity ride, was not impressed with the protest.
Read the full story here
 http://www.coffscoastindependent.com.au/story/188840/mining-protestors-greet-abbott-on-ride/?cs=393

About Us
Lock the Mid North Coast is a large group of local residents from Bellingen Shire, Coffs Harbour City, Clarence Valley and Nambucca Shire local government areas of NSW who have joined together to prevent destructive mining projects. There are now over 2,600 members of our Facebook group and nearly 1,500 local residents and land owners are on our mailing list.  
For further details about the mining projects happening in our area including document downloads, video's, news and maps about all the various mining projects happening in our region please visit our web site at: http://lockthemidnorthcoast.com.au
Enquiries: Glen Schaefer
E: info@lockthemidnorthcoast.com.au
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART, COUNTRY IS CALLING.


 Janet Cox who was arrested yesterday while trying to prevent Woodside’s drilling equipment from commencing destruction.

    From my heart to yours. I have inherited Country from my old people, and as custodian I
    have my rights to stand up and protect our Native land from bullies, selfishness, greed, and those who have no respect for our future generations and Country. I live out here; Country keeps me strong and healthy. I drink and eat, have fresh clean air, have plenty to see and do. Country is very important and precious to keep for my children, grand children and our future generations. I am so proud and very lucky to have this richness and glory. I have just reunited with my family and Country. This is my life and this is what I want to teach my children, grandchildren and future generations; and any other who want to learn about our Culture and live a simple and healthy lifestyle.

    No Government in this world have any right to over-ride our people's inherited sovereign rights, to destroy our culture, our songline; and the people's choice on how to live their life, safely and in harmony. You have taken us away from our family and Country when our hearts said no. Well, my heart said that is enough of all of this. You still want to take our land away from under our feet, tried to burn us out, raped our virgin ground; ripping our hearts out at the same time. We are people with hearts, souls, and strong feelings - and you drag us off Country like we are rubbish.

    You are taking our water which is our life, our main resource. You are bringing on global warming, poverty, violence, rape, murder - because you want everything the people have. You leave them them with nothing; you leave them with no choice. People's rights are to do strongly what comes from the heart and soul - in good faith and full of love and care for future generations. You are bullies, greedy, selfish, have no respect, and care only for money, money, money - that is all not very healthy for human society.

    You have sold your souls, your hearts, your Country - through selfishness, greed, bullying, and lack of respect. Shame on those for bringing heart ache, sorrow and tears every day. They have no right - Country belongs to the people who care about Country, and want to take care of it. You walked off Country and turned your back away from your people, and haven't looked back till you smelt the money - then you became selfish, bullies, greedy and have no respect for Country, the people, and future generations.

    We the protectors for Country, make sure that is everything attached is still here walking, talking, and living it still - and is fit for real human beings. Our children, grandchildren, and future generations can be strong, healthy and happy. LISTEN TO YOUR HEART, COUNTRY IS CALLING.

    Janet Cox
    Broome Local

    Image by Jules Rau  https://www.facebook.com/julia.rau
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    Monday, August 20, 2012

    MEDIA IS NOT REPORTING THE REALITY

    The state of Australian media is in a shambles. The nine network is very racist and extremely biased.  The Fairfax Media Group is largest shareholder is Gina Reinhart.
    I feel the mining companies are buying up the news to report infactual news to keep the masses in the dark.
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    MEDIA RELEASE: New ABC website on CSG: Embarrassing factual errors to be subject of formal complaintA new ABC website, based on what is being referred to as “data journalism”, is riddled with factual errors and will today be referred to ABC Managing Director Mark Scott for immediate investigation.

    http://www.wewantcsg.com.au/media/post/p/media-release--new-abc-website-on-csg--embarrassing-factual-errors-to-be-subject-of-formal-complaint

    http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/210812-coal-seam-gas-blog.mp3

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    Sunday, August 19, 2012

     Coal-seam radio ads axed for 'inaccuracies
    by: Nick Leys From: The AustralianMarch 27, 2012 12:00AM

    SYDNEY'S 2GB radio station has dumped two advertisements spruiking the coal-seam gas industry on the basis they contain inaccuracies. 

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    The ads by the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association are in response to what it claims have been a sustained attack by broadcaster Alan Jones.

    The ads, which were broadcast yesterday several times during Jones's program, were to be the start of a campaign pushing the $46 billion industry's claims of economic and environmental benefits. The APPEA said Jones refused attempts for a representative to discuss the issue on air.

    However, Jones told The Australian the ads had been pulled because "they are not telling the truth . . . They've gone to air but they won't be going to air again."

    He has questioned claims in the ads that the NSW community wanted the same CSG industry as Queensland and that the industry would create revenue and jobs for the NSW economy as wrong.

    Jones asserts the industry has questions to answer about the effects of the CSG process on the environment and those nearby.
    The Yaarn here is this:  All these companies are appearing to lie to get the point across that they want and need this mining! WE DO NOT NEED THIS DESTRUCTION TO COUNTRY!  Go away and get out of our land!.

    Saturday, August 18, 2012

    Govenor General ** ROYAL COMMISSION NOW**

    Below is a Video from TARA and the children are sick from the Coal Seam Gas well on their property.

      Geralyn McCarron  - A doctor from  Brisbane!
     We are told coal and CSG is good for Queensland. Recently I went out to Tara, Miles, Wandoan and Acland and met a few people affected.  Near the gasfield's of Tara, I met Jackson, age 3, with blood and mucus dripping steadily from his right nostril (that was a good day for him - on a bad day he is hospitalised). He constantly tells his mother his head hurts. I met little Noah, 17 months - he can’t tell his mum what he feels - he just holds his head in both hands and screams. I met children who were coughing, coughing, coughing.
    I met Marion who has constant headaches, who wakes in the night with headaches.
    I met Michael who moved to Tara from a remote sheep station with his wife and their two youngest children. Since then they have suffered rashes, eye irritation, fatigue, sinus problems, nose bleeds, headaches.
     I met Brian. Three generations of his family live on their 5000 acre property. They are all ill. His infant grandchildren are constantly sick with rashes, headaches and one now has fits. He can light his water bore on fire (and has posted a video on you tube to prove it) but the government officials can find no flammable gas.
    IMG 3619 NO GAS!I met Celia who runs sheep and cattle on over 1000 acres. She doesn’t have gas wells yet but QGC are running the gas pipeline through her property. They promised they would be in and out in 12 weeks; that she would hardly notice them there. They promised when they were finished the grass would be as good as the grass on her lawn. She lost 128 sheep to dingo attacks when QGC took down her fences. QGC cleared a corridor of 20 metres of her land on both sides of the pipeline which they ran right through the middle of her property. 11 months later the giant elevated pipe is still not in the ground. It is impossible to farm, she cannot gain access to half her property, she cannot muster, and sheep run in and out under the pipeline. She has lost three crops already and QGC cannot tell her when they will be finished.
    I met an air traffic controller who had retired to the bush in 2006 only to find in 2009 that Yang Coal opened a huge open cut mine 9km from their property. He cannot sleep. There are two times in the day when it is quiet- from 5:50 in the morning until a quarter past six, and the same in the evening during change of shift. The rest is constant noise from the crushing plant, the coal trains loading and going out 4 times per day, manual shunting, loaded trucks accelerating up the pit, travelling 9 km and going back, dozers, diggers, other machinery and once a week there is a blast that shakes the house. So far there have been 57 blasts. His wife who is a charge nurse at the local hospital is similarly
    IMG 3619 NO GAS! I met Aileen who was left penniless, homeless and in despair when New Hope coal resumed the dream brick home she had built 10 years ago on 17 acres of her daughter’s property at Acland. As she had not bought the land from her daughter she was given no compensation at all. Aileen had moved from a rural property to active semi-retirement. She had 300 Alpaca’s and at her house they had included a large room for her to weave the alpaca wool into garments for sale. The open cut mine got closer and closer until it was so dusty they had to wear masks working the farm. Then they had to wear them in the house. Aileen had headaches, nose bleeds and collapsed many times. The alpaca’s started miscarrying and had deformed babies. Two years ago she, her daughter and grandchildren were eventually forced out. Since then her little granddaughter (whom Aileen had assumed was just a lazy little girl) has lost her extreme lethargy.
    And.... Then there were the many farmers, graziers and croppers, stoical and reticent who have been under extreme stress trying to fend off the threat of coal and gas to their homes, lives and livelihoods for up to 5 years, sometimes more.
    Tale after tale of distress and despair.
    IMG 3619 NO GAS!
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    Friday, August 17, 2012

    The UK is showing that the rule of law is dead- follow the rules when they want and they enforce it on others when they benefit

    I am disgusted that I am under the law of the Monarchy...

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    I am so happy that finally a country, a sovereign country as Ecuador is. helped Julian Assange.  I am more than ecstatic about this!  I see him alive and free in Ecuador. I refuse to see it any other way.   The British are now seen as a law unto themselves as they threatened to storm the Equadorian embassy.  Obama is a sly man to try to convince them UK to convict Assange.
     English: Julian Assange, photo ("sunny co...English: Julian Assange, photo ("sunny country background"http://web.archive.org/web/20060712184552/http://iq.org/index.html) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    Julian Assange is my hero.  He has let the world know all of the things that I have known forever but could never prove.


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    Thursday, August 16, 2012

    Assange Decision TODAY

    English: Demonstration in front of Sydney Town...English: Demonstration in front of Sydney Town Hall in support of Julian Assange, 2010, December 10 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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    Julian AssangeJulian Assange (Photo credit: acidpollyIn six hours from the time of writing this, Mr Julian Assange who needs zero introduction  will have a decision on his life.

    If the British Government do not allow him to leave there will be an uprising and a possibility of civil war.

    Recently Julian sort refuge and asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy.  I have very strong views on this subject. While our country fights the issue of boat people requiring refuge it is very much time to storm the Australian Parliament enmasse for the Indigenous man who is frightened for his life due to genocide and ecocide.  All peoples of the world will use this decision as a Cede.
     English: Julian Assange at New Media Days 09 i...English: Julian Assange at New Media Days 09 in Copenhagen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    I am sitting waiting for this to happen and if I was in Britain right now, I would be amassing to the cause.


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