| The Liverpool Plains |
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| Wednesday, 10 June 2009 09:27 |
 This extremely productive farming land is bounded by Quirindi, Gunnedah, Premer and the Liverpool Ranges, a picturesque mountain ra nge unusually running East-West. Caroona, site of the blockade, is a central area.The Liverpool Plains and its aquifers are not marginal land and produced crops and maintained surface and underground water flows even in the recent drought. We supply much of Australia’s wheat (your pasta, flour, bread, cakes and biscuits), corn, sunflower seed products (oil, seeds), canola (oil), sorghum (animal feed), barley (for feeds and beer malt), chickpeas and legumes and other specialist crops as well as beef, lamb and wool and cotton. Our aquifers and surface flows contribute to the Murray Darling Basin. Any structural damage and pollution by mining, as demonstrated many times in the geologically similar Southern coalfields, would be devastating for your food supply and the purity and quantity of Australia’s water systems. The ability of Australia to grow its own food is a National Security Asset, ensuring that we are never beholden to any foreign power in increasingly uncertain times. We can not put that at risk for short term profits and NSW government greed.  The fertile and drought resistant Liverpool Plains area is 4 hours drive from Sydney and 1 hours drive from Tamworth. |
| Last Updated on Monday, 13 July 2009 11:41 |