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Petition to save the heritage Wallaby Scrub Road in the Hunter Valley from Open Cut Mining

We the undersigned demand the Premier of NSW Mike Baird and his Roads Minister Duncan Gay refuse to close Bulga's Wallaby Scrub Road to allow Warkworth Mining Limited (Rio Tinto) to destroy our convict built heritage road for open cut coal mining.

The owner of the road, Singleton Council, has reaffirmed its objection to the closure of Wallaby Scrub Road by voting against the closure at their recent meeting. Council is supporting the Bulga community, and we call on the Baird Government to do the same.

Baird's State Government has ignored the Land and Environment Court and the Supreme Court and abandoned the people of Bulga and Milbrodale in the Hunter Valley. The Commonwealth Government has worked hand in glove with the NSW Government to allow the destruction of world unique woodlands and aboriginal culture and history.

Wallaby Scrub Road is a heritage road built by the convicts and must be preserved as part of our European heritage. We must not allow a profit driven international mining company to destroy our heritage against wishes of the community and to mine a product which is destroying our planet.

Who's signing
Kim Bergin
Clive Barker
Callista Barritt
Paul O'Toole
Graeme Obrien
Julia Imrie
Bronwyn Vost
Chris Stiles
Tim Joughin
Elizabeth Robinson
Sandra Wallbridge
Patricia Hansson
Valerie Scott
Johanna Lynch
Megan Lewis
Rachel Lindsay
Peter Donley
Jenny Newman
Don Tucker
Garrad Lester
Kerry Tait
Louise Oss-Emer
Tanya Harris
Shanti Meera
Leanne Williams
Laurell Taggart
Shane Bell

Will you sign?


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  • Kim Bergin
    signed 2016-08-03 07:41:24 +1000
    It is absolutely disgusting what the Governments and Mining companies are doing to our beautiful country and to the people who reside in these lovely places and who just want to live in peace without the bully-boy tactics that the NSW Government is applying to these areas. Whose side are they on? Just money grabbing without any thought to are heritage and future in this country. Shame on you the Baird Government – hang your heads in shame. You politicians are put into Government to do the will of the people not to feather your own nests. Shame on you these mining companies riding roughshod over these decent people who just want to protect the place they live and love. Leave them alone!
  • Clive Barker
    signed 2016-08-02 18:49:24 +1000
    It is disgusting beyond believe the destruction wrought by these mines and inconceivable that more is even considered
  • Callista Barritt
    signed 2016-08-02 16:03:34 +1000
    Callista Barritt
  • Paul O'Toole
    signed 2016-08-02 12:24:57 +1000
  • Graeme Obrien
    signed 2016-08-02 09:14:00 +1000
    It is obvious – have these bastards at RioTinto no sense of the need to preserve our history.
  • Julia Imrie
    signed 2016-08-02 08:29:56 +1000
    Enough is enough time to move forward – we don’t need to ruin more communities, destroy more of our landscape and further threaten our water resources in the Hunter Valley- already under extreme cumulative pressure from coal mining.
  • Bronwyn Vost
    signed 2016-08-01 16:01:19 +1000
  • Chris Stiles
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-07-30 17:11:35 +1000
    Sign the petition: Petition to save the heritage Wallaby Scrub Road in the Hunter Valley from Open Cut Mining
  • Chris Stiles
    signed 2016-07-30 17:11:17 +1000
  • Tim Joughin
    signed 2016-07-30 16:24:44 +1000
    Save this beautiful heritage town and road!
  • Elizabeth Robinson
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-07-29 21:51:09 +1000
    Sign the petition: Petition to save the heritage Wallaby Scrub Road in the Hunter Valley from Open Cut Mining
  • Elizabeth Robinson
    signed 2016-07-29 21:50:02 +1000
  • Sandra Wallbridge
    signed 2016-07-29 19:46:47 +1000
  • Patricia Hansson
    signed 2016-07-29 19:36:29 +1000
  • Valerie Scott
    signed 2016-07-29 18:52:33 +1000
    All we can hope for is that commonsense will prevail. I pray so.
  • Johanna Lynch
    signed via 2016-07-29 18:29:57 +1000
    johanna lynch
  • Megan Lewis
    signed via 2016-07-29 18:12:10 +1000
  • Rachel Lindsay
    signed 2016-07-29 17:36:51 +1000
    I don’t think you’ll be happy til you have despoiled the whole of the country for development. What will you do for culture then?
  • Peter Donley
    signed 2016-07-29 17:22:06 +1000
    Peter Donley
  • Jenny Newman
    signed 2016-07-29 17:14:48 +1000
    Jenny Newman
  • Don Tucker
    signed 2016-07-29 17:06:38 +1000
    Don Tucker
  • Garrad Lester
    signed 2016-07-29 16:15:51 +1000
  • Kerry Tait
    signed 2016-07-29 15:51:43 +1000
  • Louise Oss-Emer
    signed 2016-07-29 14:35:09 +1000
    I used wallaby scrub road to travel south on good roads through the beautiful ausie bush. Cant beleive that this road could dissappear forever.
  • Tanya Harris
    signed 2016-07-29 12:45:16 +1000
  • Shanti Meera
    signed 2016-07-29 12:04:49 +1000
  • Leanne Williams
    @leannewilliam17 tweeted link to this page. 2016-07-29 11:02:41 +1000
    Sign the petition: Petition to save the heritage Wallaby Scrub Road in the Hunter Valley from Open Cut Mining http://www.lockthegate.org.au/petition_wallaby_scrub_road?recruiter_id=92331
  • Leanne Williams
    signed via 2016-07-29 11:02:12 +1000
  • Laurell Taggart
    signed 2016-07-29 08:36:12 +1000
    Iam 150 percent going to keep fighting to help save our country
  • Shane Bell
    signed via 2016-07-29 00:29:28 +1000