Tillegra Tableau
Update: Media coverage of this event is at the bottom of this post.
In a show of solidarity, voters from Dungog, Newcastle and Sydney (as well as two dairy cows for the milking!) will set up a “Human Gallery” in Martin Place Sydney between Phillip Street and Macquarie Street) at 12.45 pm on Friday 23rd April. Organised by the Save the Williams Coalition we are protesting against the dam but we are leaning towards promotion of better use of our money, sustainable use of our farming land, support for the environmental values of the valley, river and wetlands as well as support for Newcastle fisheries etc.
Each person will quietly bear testament to what could be lost by holding a large photograph from Ken Rubeli’s portfolio of images from the inundation area of the Tillegra Dam – a site neither Premier nor Planning Minister has visited! The dam will be represented by a low wall of hay bales. The milking of the cows will be a metaphor for how we think the NSW Labor government and Hunter Water Corp. are treating us.
If you can come please do. If you can’t please invite, encourage, help anyone to come along and support our call for an independent enquiry into the need for Tillegra Dam with the promotion Tillegra? Do Things Differently, Kristina.
