Black Gully Music Festival 2022
10am SAT NOV 9th

Every year Armidale folk gather at Black Gully (behind NERAM) to celebrate community, music and biodiversity
Armidale Vegetable Sowing Guide
This guide shows planting time periods that should allow you to get a crop in Armidale.
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Lengthy delays ahead for air pollution monitoring whilst Whitehaven Coal speeds to get Vickery mine up

Amelie Vanderstock from Leard Forest Research Node presents findings from community’s field studies at Boggabri and Maules Creek

A public meeting on full article »

Narrabri Gas Project EIS Workshop Armidale

This event is part of the North West Alliance Narrabri Gas Project EIS Workshop Tour. Engaging communities across the North West.

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Film: The Bentley Effect — 10 April 7pm Kent House

The Bentley Effect, with Director Brendan Shoebridge 7pm, Monday 10 April, 2017 Kent House, 141 Allingham Street, Armidale Admission: $15 full price, $12 full article »

Air quality in Boggabri and Maules Creek — Public information session

On behalf of the members of the Leard Forest Research Node, we are pleased to invite you and interested colleagues to attend a Public information full article »

Can’t make it to the #StopAdani Roadshow? Join the live feed

Can’t make it to your local #StopAdani Roadshow event? Tune into the Livestream this Friday at 7pm and join in from home.

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Mobilising for divestment! Join the online Climate Impacts Web Workshop

Next Tuesday April 4th at 4pm AEST, we’ll be joined by organisers from New Zealand and Indonesia for a webinar on Global Divestment Mobilisation full article »

Sustainable Futures Convention 2017, Gloucester NSW — Sat 25 & Sun 26 March

Following on from the inaugural Gloucester NSW weekend in 2015, we are focusing on progressive communities and individuals in action; walking the talk full article »

Premiere film screening in Tamworth about the murder of Glen Turner

Cultivating Murder is a feature documentary that tells the heart-rending story of the murder of Glen Turner, an officer for the Office of Environment full article »

A Hole in the Earth, a Hole in your Pocket

Before we end up deep in an economic and environmental crisis, it is important for Australians to know the facts of lending our land to full article »

Knitting Nannas this Friday 11–1pm, outside Barnaby Joyce’s Office

Hello Water Protectors,

Things are heating up again in the Pilliga. Word from ground-zero, we have 6mths tops to stop this project full article »

Fossil free Unis — The Fossil Free Convergence 10–13 March

The Fossil Free Convergence is a 3-day national gathering of students and their allies from across the country. Held in the iconic Blue Mountains full article »

Become a citizen scientist and make a difference

The citizen science group called the Leard Forest Research Node conducts field work including noise and dust monitoring as well as koala habitat mapping full article »

The economic impacts of CSG: How will it affect you? community discussion in Narrabri with Richard Denniss

A community discussion on the CSG industry’s potential economic effects on the region.

The Crossing Theatre, Narrabri

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Citizen science group calls for Dept of Planning to lift veil of secrecy on low frequency noise from collieries

A citizen science group based in coal-afflicted Maules Creek, NSW, claims the Department of Planning and Environment has failed to validate low frequency noise full article »

Black Hole screening at Kent House — Friday 16th 6pm

Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas and Mining and Progressive Cinema present Black Hole.

Friday, 16th September, at 6pm, at Kent House, 141 full article »

Continuing Threat to the Liverpool Plains

Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas and Mining (AACSGaM) and Progressive Cinema present Black Hole on Friday, 16 September, at 6pm at Kent House, 141 full article »

Beyond the coal rush — Noon Sat 3/9 ABC Radio National

Hi, here’s a documentary based on the latest research from the ‘Coal Rush’ research team, in the coal mine affected areas of Liverpool Plains, full article »

September Forum: Mark Ogge presents Mining the Truth

Mark is the Principal Adviser at The Australia Institute. He specialises in mining and energy issues, particularly relating to the economic full article »

Volunteer photographers needed to take photos of Leard Forest, Maules Creek and Namoi Valley

With the buyback of the Caroona coal licence from BHP, and the potential buyback of Shenhua, there is a concern that the Namoi Valley, full article »

Field Trip Vickery Forest: 6–7th August

Photo: Tim Bergen

By now many of you are aware that Vickery Forest, between Boggabri and Gunnedah, is next in Whitehaven Coal’s targets, if not read full article »

Excessive Noise Levels at Whitehaven’s Maules Creek Mine

Recently Paul Flynn, CEO of Whitehaven Coal, appeared on nationwide ABCTV “Australian Story” and also ABC radio attempting to persuade the public that the controversial full article »

#Water4Life — Australia’s Biggest Roadside Demonstration — Saturday, June 25 at 10am

Pat Schultz is organising the Armidale district. Phone:{mobile phone prefix oh four}28725852 to register your proposed location, or enquire about a location to full article »

Free bus from Armidale to Q&A in Tamworth

ABC Q&A – hosted by Tony Jones – is broadcasting LIVE from Tamworth Town Hall on Monday the 6th June.

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Leard Forest Bird Surveys, Sat 28th-Sunday 29th May 2016

You are cordially invited to the visit one of the state’s biodiversity hotspots under threat from coal mining, the Leard Forest , NSW, situated full article »

Lecture: David and Goliath, the Coal Seam Gas industry V Groundswell Gloucester

When: Friday 6th May 09:00-11:00 with question time to 12:00 Where: Natural Resources Building (W55) Lecture theatre EM6 University of New England

“David and full article »