“I don’t think you are listening. I don’t think anyone is listening.”
Just over a week ago, cotton farmer George Bender took his own life after a decade long battle against resources companies who were trying to put coal seam gas (CSG) wells on his Queensland property.
On the ABC’s Q&A program last night, his daughter Helen condemned Australian politicians for their lack of compassion for farmers like her father.
“On Saturday we buried my father after struggling for ten years against the CSG industry. When will farmers be given the right to say ‘no’ to the CSG companies coming onto their land?,” she asked the panel which included Opposition agriculture minister Joel Fitzgibbon and Nationals Senator Fiona Nash.
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When will the farmers realise that the greens abhor this much as they do.The LNP long a go stopped being an advocate for farmers