Story & photos David Lowe
In Australia, it’s not easy being green. There are no monuments to those who have risked their lives and liberty in the defence of Australia’s unique and precious ecology.
When the protectors win, their reward is a surviving chunk of the world they have fought for, whether that’s Kelly’s Bush in the case of the green bans, or the Franklin River in the 1980s, or the unpolluted air and water of the Northern Rivers of NSW in the 21st century, saved from gasfields. Uncle Yillah at Bentley.
Australia’s original environmentalists, those who were here before and after European contact, paid a heavy price for their defence of country.