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Senator Ricky Muir supports ‘No Gasfields’ in Seaspray

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Coal and Gas Field Free Victoria. Protecting our farmland and communities. Senator Ricky Muir supports ‘No Gasfields’ in Seaspray. April 23, 2015. Senator Ricky Muir meet yesterday with community members from Seaspray and surrounds who have been holding off the expansion of the unconventional gas industry for the past two years. If there is no 100% guarantee that fracking will not cause damage to the air, water and soil then the risks outweigh the short term benefits. As elected members of Parliament...

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Frackman: The Movie, Screening Across Victoria

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Coal and Gas Field Free Victoria. Protecting our farmland and communities. Frackman: The Movie, Screening Across Victoria. April 1, 2015. Frackman: The Movie tells the story of ordinary Australian Dayne Pratzky and his struggle against international gas companies in Tara, Queensland. The film is screening across Victoria as the issue of unconventional gas extraction heats up. Can you imagine any other issue that would bring together the likes of Alan Jones and Bob Brown? April 13th, Geelong. This film ha...

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The Victorian Treasurer’s confusion

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Coal and Gas Field Free Victoria. Protecting our farmland and communities. The Victorian Treasurer’s confusion. May 23, 2015. The Victorian government went to last year’s state election with a reserved stance on unconventional gas mining, committing to keeping the current moratorium in place while they conducted a parliamentary enquiry. However the Treasurer of the state seems to have a bit more of an industry-focused attitude. He went on to assure the bigwigs of the industry that he understood them.

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Victorian Government Inquiry into Unconventional Gas

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Coal and Gas Field Free Victoria. Protecting our farmland and communities. Victorian Government Inquiry into Unconventional Gas. May 19, 2015. Work started by the previous government, into water tables and the community consultation process run by the Primary Agency, will be released as part of the inquiry. The moratorium on CSG exploration will stay in place until the inquiry delivers its findings. Our aim is to:. Demonstrate that the UCG industry does not have social license to operate in Victoria,.

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Community Consultation Report Considered Flawed

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Coal and Gas Field Free Victoria. Protecting our farmland and communities. Community Consultation Report Considered Flawed. May 19, 2015. Although the community engagement sessions held in rural Victoria were poorly promoted and gave little opportunity for broad community exposure, the turn out at these events in Gippsland and Western Victoria were good mainly due to the vigorous promotion of these events by local community groups across the state concerned about the impacts of unconventional gas. Commun...

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News

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Coal and Gas Field Free Victoria. Protecting our farmland and communities. Community Survey Scroll Unveiled at Minister’s Office. August 10, 2016. A group of community members from Gippsland, Western Victoria and Melbourne stood in unity out the front of Resource Minister Wade Noonan’s office this morning to present the minister with an updated scroll recording the names and percentages of the 75 communities across Victoria that have declared themselves gasfield free and off limits to onshore […]. After ...

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Kat Moore

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Coal and Gas Field Free Victoria. Protecting our farmland and communities. No Announcement: Disappointment meets Resolve. Across the state and in the capital we organised, painted and gathered together. We were positive, but reserved, anticipating a total ban but preparing for something less beneficial. Farmers, who have held out for years, campaigning and developing imaginative protests, were looking for a prospect of relief, hoping their hard work had paid off, ending […]. Trust the Experts, Noonan.

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Essays

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The Best of New Writing in Australia. Spike: the Meanjin blog. Subscribe in Spring and Grow with Meanjin. Aboriginal people have never been afraid of having the hard conversation.’. What Irish Catholics Did for Australian Democracy. Gerard Henderson on Irish Catholics in twentieth-century Australia. Marngrook, Tom Wills and the Continuing Denial of Indigenous History. Jenny Hocking and Nell Reidy: Australian football has a black history. Immigration, Asylum Seekers and Australia. At war with ourselves.