Media Release - Massive Mullumbimby Crowd Greets Convoy
Over 3,000 people packed into Mullumbimby Showground in northern NSW today to greet the Stop Adani Convoy. Organisers in the Bob Brown Foundation were stunned and delighted by the massive turnout.
Read moreAnti-adani convoy grabs huge support in Sydney - SBS News
Hundreds of people joined an anti-Adani rally in Sydney as part of a convoy - led by conservationist Bob Brown - protesting against the Queensland coalmine.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/anti-adani-convoy-grabs-huge-support-in-sydney
Media Release - Shorten, Convoy Converge on Brisbane
Both Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Bob Brown Foundation’s Stop Adani Convoy are converging on Brisbane today and will move on to regional Queensland. More than 400 people, including the mayors of Bellingen and Glen Innes, gave the convoy a rousing send-off from the Coffs Harbour Showground this morning.
Read moreMedia Release - Stop Adani Convoy heads north from Sydney
After a rally in Parramatta Park today, the Bob Brown Foundation’s Stop Adani Convoy of vehicles is heading north to Coffs Harbour and, tomorrow, Brisbane. The convoy aims for the election on 18 May to become a vote-changer on stopping billionaire Gautam Adani’s mine.
Read moreBob Brown is welcome in Rockhampton
Frontline Action on Coal
The Murdoch papers of Central Queensland can peddle their coal-loving propaganda, but here in Rockhampton, locals have turned out this morning to show their support for strong climate action and the Bob Brown Foundation Stop Adani Convoy.
https://www.facebook.com/FrontlineActionOnCoal/videos/445799579517154/
WIN News Albury coverage of convoy
Former Greens leader Bob Brown and Current leader Richard Di Natale have joined protestors at the Stop Adani convoy rally in Wodonga.
https://www.facebook.com/WINNewsAlbury/videos/2384168221860529/
Former Greens leader heads anti-Adani convoy to Qld - Sky News Australia
Former Greens leader Bob Brown has spearheaded an anti-Adani convoy, travelling north to protest the divisive proposed coal mine in Queensland. The convoy of more than 70 cars has left Hobart on its two-week campaign journey up Australia's east coast. Senator Matt Canavan criticised the 'do-gooders and bludgers' heading to Queensland and 'telling us all what to do'. The fleet is expected to reach Claremont on April 28. The proposed mine site is about 160 kilometres northwest of the town.
Easter #StopAdani Convoy Heads to Queensland -Westender
The Stop Adani Convoy left Hobart on Wednesday morning, 17th of April, with Bob Brown (in what looks like a bit of an “up you” to the Coalition), leading the way in a borrowed Tesla electric car.
Organisers say that the aim of the convoy is to, “…keep fossil fuel extraction, greenhouse gas production and global warming front and centre in the run to the election.”
Read moreMedia Release - Stop Adani Convoy off to a brilliant start
The Stop Adani Convoy has left sunny Hobart this morning after being sent off by a large, jubilant, crowd of supporters. Organisers had expected 60 but more than 600 turned out. The convoy now has 754 cars registered, all part of this citizens' action for climate change during a crucial election period.
“We are a celebration in motion. It is a community commitment – an act of defiance – for the future of our planet. A peaceful protest against Gautam Adani’s mine, which his operatives say will be under way soon,” said Bob Brown.
Read moreConvoy Lauch Rally – Theresa Sainty Speech
pulingina! (Welcome)
kunanyi takamuna rrala lunta Nipaluna;
Timtumili Minanya; truwala nika – Kunanyi – milaythina mapiya-nara, milaytina Pakana.
Kunanyi stands as strong as ever behind Nipaluna; as she has since the beginning of time.
Timtumili Minanya (River Derwent), Kunanyi and country all around her is Aboriginal land. Lutruwita milaythina Pakana (Aboriginal land); ‘Australia’ is Aboriginal land.
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