Tuesday 20 March

11am Rally & March:
Five mines in the Mudgee region is enough!

Moonscape or Mudgee? We don't need, and cannot sustain, five more mines in this region. Rally opposite Parklands Resort 11am. Catch the bus from Lawson Park 10.30am.

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2pm FREE Conference in Lawson Park

Program

2.00pm	Welcome
2.10pm	Impacts and Issues from a Council Perspective (Cr Russell Holden)
2.35pm	Health Impacts (Dr Richard Stiles, Drs for the Environment)
3.00pm	Biodiversity Impacts (Pepe Clarke, CEO, Nature Conservation Council of NSW)
3.25pm	Water Impacts: Maintaining Healthy and Resilient Water Systems (Julia Imrie)
3.50pm	SHORT BREAK
4.00pm	SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: Paul Cleary - Journalist and author of 'Too Much Luck: The mining boom and Australia's future' (To be chaired by retired NSW Supreme Court judge Morris ('Dusty') Ireland.)
4.30pm	PANEL SESSION: 'Mudgee 2050', with local farming, viticulture, business, water user and social services representatives
5.15pm	General session with meeting resolutions
5.30pm	Thanks and close

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7pm Dinner with Sharyn Munro at Roth's

Dinner at Roth's Wine Bar with Sharyn Munro (author of soon-to-be-released Rich Land, Wasteland - why coal is killing Australia). Sharyn's talk is 'Clearing out the country - coal before communities, profits before people'.

Read more about Sharyn's forthcoming book here. Read the text of Sharyn's talk here. You can also read Sharyn's blog - which includes a post about the 'wHole Story' event and her talk - here.