First stop was definitely to see for ourselves the Santos Office in Narabri where the heads of this company dictate the death of the last remaining un-fragmented temperate woodland, the Pilliga Forest. A rare and endangered forest.
It was hot compared to home but the heat was expected, but the heat we felt from this office was certainly hotter. It is evident this company works with a corrupt government and a corrupt NSW Aboriginal Lands Council who sign off on cultural areas of NSW to make the way forward for mining.
I cannot see why people think this is a normal process and I will never understand the government that aids this sort of thing.
The people of this country are desperate for justice and the people they elected to stand up for the rights of aboriginal people have sold out to the government and they are no longer representatives of what they want upheld to the various governments and their agencies. They have simply lost confidence and have given them the thumbs down.
To the government the Gomeroi people have said No Deal to Santos and we need to support them in this decision to save what culture there is left in this desolate part of the country that htey see as their home and the home of their ancestors.
I think the government thinks no one cares about it. They are sadly mistaken because this government is walking a very fine line at the moment with all of this.
We are going to a Corroboree at Pilliga and there will be a ceremonial fire and this fire is the fire of change and will effect things in another dimension to cause Santos to flee from the North West.
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