Extraction and violence go hand in hand

How a fight to save the bush became a battlefield

"In Coffs Harbour Local Court the forestry contractors Michael Luigi Vitali and Rodney James Hearfield were found guilty of assaulting Graham and his companion Andre Johnston that afternoon on the road on the Dorrigo Plateaux three and a half years ago. No conviction was recorded."

"What she (Higginson) still believes to have been collusion between police, loggers and the FCNSW reflected a dangerous culture in which protesters are perceived by the government to be suspect automatically, while those who profit from resource extraction were above suspicion."
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https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/how-a-fight-to-save-the-bush-became-a-battlefield-20240117-p5exxc.html
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They Sent the Riot Squad in
Mark Graham vs the NSW Forestry Corporation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Oz51c1LI8

The Philippines "is the fifth-most dangerous globally this year, and third for cumulative killings in the past decade, with 281 environmental and land activists killed or disappeared between 2012 and 2022."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-27/philippines-most-dangerous-in-asia-for-environmental-activists/102891938