Sydney Knitting Nannas videos on Facebook
Sydney Knitting Nannas YouTube Channel
Video and films posted on Sydney Knitting Nannas website
14 August 2025 – Save Bulga Forest Protesers receive 6 month good behaviour. The group included Mid-coast Knitting Nannas Dominique Jacobs and Helen Kvelde have been taking a stand on protecting our native forests and fighting to save our right to protest for years. Facebook Channel 7 News
6 June 2025 – Our inland rivers are sick, and Sydney’s Knitting Nannas are on the case. Nannas took their knitted Darling/Baaka River to the steps of Sydney Hospital for some healing. Nature NSW Intagram
11 July 2024 – Nanna Power: The Story of the Gloucester Knitting Nannas – What could cause a great grandmother to lock herself to a fence? The Gloucester Knitting Nannas formed during the regional New South Wales town’s fight against AGL, which made national headlines. ‘When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty’ is the motivation behind four grandmothers who protest against gas and greed in Australia. Treechange Films
25 June 2024 – Mid-coast Knitting Nannas Dominique Jacobs and Helen Kvelde are two extraordinary women taking a stand for nature and for future generations. When the NSW Government rushed through tough new anti-protest laws in 2022, they knew they had to act. Represented by EDO, Dom and Helen lodged a successful constitutional challenge to the laws, which saw the harshest elements of the legislation struck out. Environmental Defenders Office YouTube
6 June 2024 – Community Recognition Statement of South West Sydney Knitting Nannas by Judy Hannan MP Member for Wollondilly YouTube
1 June 2024 – Knitting the Revolution – Australia’s Coal Seam Gas extraction has an opponent that was never expected: meet the Knitting Nannas, and their unlikely weapon, a pair of knitting needles. SBS OnDemand
30 May 2024 – Tea ladies walked off the job at parliament house, taking a stand over the lack of action on climate change. Win News Canberra
29 May 2024 – Knitting Nannas sing for emissions reduction ABC
19 March 2024 – Prof. (and Nanna) Heather Goodall – Conflicted rivers: water and land across the upper Darling region. ANU Centre for Environmental History
13 October 2022 – Sydney’s ‘Knitting Nanas’ protest about new NSW protest law 7NEWS
13 October 2022 – Knitting Nannas launch legal action against NSW government protest laws ABC News
2022 – Purl One for the Climate – Albury’s ‘Knitting Nannas for Renewables’
7 Jan 2021 – The Sydney, Australia chapter of international group Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG) spreads knowledge about environmental damage through peaceful protest. 60 Second docs
4 Jan 2021 – The Gloucester Kitting Nannas’, a group of amazing women with a passion for knitting, and saving the planet! Treechange Films – 20 mins
8 March 2019 – International Women’s Day: Knitting Nannas from all over NSW marched from Martin Place, Sydney to Parliament House to protest about water mismanagement and the lack of government action to protect river and groundwater health. Frogmouth Films: Rani Brown
15 May 2017 – The ‘Stop CSG’ Nanna Rap – For years, the Illawarra Knitting Nannas Against Greed have been campaigning against coal seam gas in their own inimitable way… by knitting (and pestering politicians in the process). Stop CSG Illawarra
1 Feb 2015 – The Nanna Wrap – The original Knitting Nannas Against Gas getting their message across – save the land, air and water for the kiddies. Clare Twomey
27 October 2014 – The Knitting Nannas peacefully and productively protest against exploration and mining of Coal Seam Gas and other nonrenewable energy. We meet women from all walks of life who have come together to bring levity to an otherwise serious situation. They apply the principles of non violent direct action with powerful results. Frogmouth Films
The Bentley Effect – the story of a social movement – Smiling Dragonfly Productions