Thirty Years of Creative Resistance - Friends of the Earth Australia

Through co-ordinated work with the
Kaurna people, the local traditional
owners, FoE worked to secure protection
for sections of the Tjilbruke Dreaming track
that were threatened by development and
other forms of interference. The track is
the ‘last complete dreaming track of the
Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains with
a complete song cycle to have survived
European settlement’.
Gina Kellett and Dave Nurton were long
standing and pivotal members of the
group. While involved in revegetation
projects in the hills to the east of Willunga,
they became aware of continuing problems
with soil erosion in gullies. They initiated
a new system that utilised bundles of
newspapers as biodegradable ‘dams’ that
slowed water flow during rain, collected silt
and, by providing a medium for seeds to
germinate, helped in restoring groundcover
and shrubs in the gullies.
Thirty years is a long time in the world of
community politics and social activism, and
this book can only offer the briefest of snap
shots of some of the longer running FoE
groups and campaigns that have operated
over this time.
Over the years there have been FoE
groups in the following towns, cities
and locations, as well as in others not
recorded in Chain Reaction: Adelaide,
Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Uni, Alice Springs,
Armidale (NSW), Bathurst, Bendigo, the
Blue Mountains, Black Rock (Vic), Burnie,
Bonang (Vic), Ballarat, Bridgetown (WA),
Brisbane, Callala Beach (NSW), Cooma,
Collingwood, Cessnock, Canberra, Colac
(Vic), Darwin, Eltham, Fitzroy, Flinders Uni,
Frankston, Glen Waverly (Vic), Goulburn,
Grafton, Gosford, Hobart, Hawthorn,
Hurstville, Kiama, Kyneton, Lake
Macquarie, Launceston, Latrobe Valley,
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Lismore, Latrobe Uni, Jervis Bay, Mitcham,
Manjimup, Melbourne, Mt Gambier,
Maitland, Macquarie Uni, Mossman,
Mullumbimby, Monash Uni, Nedlands
(WA), Newcastle, Nowra, Newtown, North
Yorke Peninsula (SA), NSW Institute of
Technology, Ourimbah (NSW), Oakleigh
(Vic), Port Pirie, Randwick, Ryde (NSW),
Surrey Hills (NSW), St Andrews (Vic),
Snowy Mountains, Stanthorpe (QLD),
Sydney, Swinburne College (Vic), Seaford
(Vic), Townsville, Uni of Sydney, Uni of
New England, Uni of WA, Wollongong,
Wodonga, Whyalla, Williamstown (SA),
Willunga, and Yarrawonga.
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