While thousands are camping by the coast for five days, enjoying their annual pilgrimage to Bluesfest, another group of campers have been at it for much longer as they put their lives on hold and their bodies on the line to oppose unconventional gas mining.
On Wednesday, mining minister Anthony Roberts emerged from a meeting with Metgasco to dub many of the gasfield opponents camped at Bentley ‘extremists’.
Local videographer Darmin Cameron recently travelled to the protests site to see for himself just how extreme they are.
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