Rallying together … the event's MC Alan Jones
PRIME agricultural land in the black soil plains in northern NSW, regarded as the best in Australia, is being taken from farming communities by coal seam gas mining companies in a form of ''legalised theft'', a retired NSW Supreme Court judge told a public meeting in Gunnedah yesterday.
The meeting, chaired by talkback radio broadcaster Alan Jones, also heard that the widespread incursion of miners into rural food-producing areas was the most extreme radical experiment in social engineering ever seen in Australia and would result in suicides and acts of terrorism against coal seam gas installations.
Allegations of government corruption were made with Mr Jones publicly reading part of a list he said was obtained under Freedom of Information that showed former ministers and ministerial employers from the governments of Bob Hawke, Bob Carr and Jeff Kennett who now worked as lobbyists for mining companies.
Former justice Robert Hunter, who retired in 2002 and has a property at Willow Tree, called on the O'Farrell government to establish an Office of Food Security and said local farmers were right to oppose miners harming their land and irrevocably damaging water supplies.
The Canberra Times
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