FARMERS have been crying out for years to protect our precious prime farming lands from mining and gas, but until now the plea has largely fallen on deaf ears.
But they hope an unexpected intervention this week from former NSW governor Dame Marie Bashir can jolt politicians into action.
Speaking at an International Women’s day event in Sydney on Sunday Dame Marie ditched the shackles of her former non-political role.
Dame Marie
The Financial Times
has just published an article entitled US attacks UK’s
‘constant accommodation’ with China. The City of London is behind these accusations of
betrayal.
“The Obama
administration accused the UK of a “constant accommodation” of China after
Britain decided to join a new China-led
financial institution that could rival the World Bank. The
rare rebuke of one of the US’s closest allies came as Britain prepared to
announce that it will become a founding member of the $50bn Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank, making it the first country in
the G7 group of leading economies to join an institution launched by China last
October.”