The Byron Bay Croquet Club is ready for another big year that includes new turf, hosting a state championship and building on last year’s membership growth.
Local koala groups have been taking action to protect NSW koalas by meeting with Tweed State Member of Parliament, Geoff Provest seeking his support for action on koala protections and asking him not to support the koala killing legislation his government are putting forward.
One of the founding members of the Keerrong Gas Squad Judi Emmett came back to the hall to celebrate CSG Free Day. Photo Tree Faerie.
Five years ago, a teeny weeny village tucked in the hills north of Lismore became the birthplace of an army who won the war of the northern rivers.
The fight to save the land and water from the CSG Daemon came full circle on Saturday when the Keerrong Gas Squad hosted a CSG Free celebration event at the Keerrong Hall, the birthplace of thousands of yellow triangle signs and the fire in the Bentley belly.
Local farmers who became fighters and protectors of the land around Bentley. Photo Tree Faerie.
Celebrating were folk from battles including Glenugie, Doubtful Creek and other war zones in the fracking fiasco. Many of the usual suspects were there including anti gas warrior Ian Gaillard, a bevy of Knitting Nannas (almost unrecognisable in their yellow-less civvies), artivist Luke Vassella who gave what might be the last rendition of Gently Bentley, and two of the incredible Keerrong Gas Squad founding members Judi Emmett and Vicki Gaillard.
The paddock around the hall was dotted with the who’s who and the old and new in what all hoped was a party to mark the end all mining destruction in the Northern Rivers.
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Local farmers who became fighters and protectors of the land around Bentley. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Knitting Nannas Clare Twomey and Rosie Lee. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Davey Bob and David Low. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Dean Draper. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Uncle Reg King. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
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Rosie Lee. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Jill Lyons. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Moby the wonder dog. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
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Vicki Gaillard. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Bentley farmer Meg Nielsen and Lismore Mayor Jenny Dowell enjoying the victory at Keerrong. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Luke Vassella. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Luke Vassella. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Clown Against Gas – Gwilym. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Brigitte Steivermann. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Ian Gaillard and Uncle reg King. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
Adam Guise. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
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Cloudcatcher Media crew David Lowe, Luke Vassella and Eve Jeffery. Photo Tree Faerie – Cloudcatcher Media.
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