Alan Jones speaks at the rally.
THE time to act against mining in the Southern Highlands is now.
Government's were "asleep at the wheel", leaving the communities on the frontline in the "war" against mining as Australian land was being bought by foreign-owned companies that take the profits offshore.
This was the message at Saturday's Our Water Our Land Our Future rally in Bowral in which about 800 people, mostly of retirement age, came to hear from speakers including 2GB's Alan Jones and Lock the Gate's Drew Hutton.
"We want to protect our water our farmland, our health and our important natural and cultural areas from mining," Mr Hutton said.
"We are saying that when governments fail us, as they have on this issue, that ordinary people have got to step up and become heroes.
Southern Highland News 21.11.11
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