Nannas contribute to a fabric Menindee Memorial for the fish kill, illustrated by cross stitch on fabric. This week they will be at a special Forest Vigil on Wednesday to respond to the Budget handed down on Tuesday 24 June.
Julie Paterson’s stitch in
Nannas along with Mr Murray Cod went to the National Art School (NAS) in Darlinghurst on 13 June to take part in an art project by Julie Paterson about fish deaths on the Darling / Baaka. It’s a moving and beautiful work and is a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize.
Small pieces of cotton each with 100 small crosses are stitched together to form a ‘river’, with each cross stitch representing a fish killed.
See her website for details of the project and how you can participate. She still needs some hundreds of thousands of cross stitches.
Forests
Wednesday 25 June – Forest Vigil
12 noon to 1 pm at Parliament House – Cnr Martin Place and Macquarie Street.
The NSW Budget will be delivered on Tuesday. Good news for forests is not expected. Instead the government is getting ready to introduce their INFM method – carbon credits. Join the Nannas and Bob Brown Foundation.
Orara East State Forest
NSW Forestry Commission, under police guard, is pushing ahead with the destruction of Orara East State Forest, 20 minutes from Coffs Harbour. The Minns Labor Government promised this area to be a part of the Great Koala National Park.
Local opposition has rallied, refusing to let this critical area be destroyed. A forest defender locked onto a harvester before dawn on June 16.
Coal
Huge coal mine extensions are being approved by the NSW Planning Department as modifications to avoid being assessed by the Independent Planning Commission. The Minns’ government continues to approve coal mines under Barilaro’s LNP coal exploration and mining policy. The government says they are reviewing the policy, but we can’t be confident that the new policy will be the radically different one that’s needed.
FOI Challenge – Lock the Gate Alliance (LTGA) has commenced legal proceedings in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) seeking to make the NSW Planning Department release correspondence it received from coal company lawyers. There is a one-day hearing scheduled for 18 September 2025 (Environmental Defenders Office)
Protest Laws
A new constitutional challenge to NSW’s protest laws follows on from the Knitting Nanas successful challenge to anti-protest laws brought in under the former coalition government with Labor’s support. This year the Minns’ Labor Government rushed through Parliament ‘laws that make it an offence to hinder someone from entering or leaving a place of worship, or cause obstruction, harassment, intimidation or fear near places of worship’. Josh Lees, on behalf of Palestine Action Group, is challenging these laws in the NSW supreme court. (The Guardian)
Nannas are watching
Wilding – a documentary film based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title. WILDING tells the incredible story of a young couple who bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate.
Review (ABC News)
Nannas are reading
Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project. Check out the chart. (The Guardian)
The murky world of lobbying and the North West Shelf (Pearls and Irritations)
Woodside’s North West Shelf extension the focus of another legal challenge from the group Friends of Australian Rock Art (ABC News)
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says. (The Guardian)
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