Save The Kimberley – On Tour With the John Butler Trio

August 29th, 2010

Save The Kimberley is proud to be joining the John Butler Trio (JBT) for their Australian Tour beginning in Perth on the 29th August and culminating in the Kimberley (Broome)  27th September 2010. Click here to see all tour dates.


Albert Wiggan on stage on the John Butler Trio Australian tour

Albert Wiggan on stage during the John Butler Trio Australian tour


John Butler is one of Australia’s most exciting and successful musicians and his music and actions have always had a strong social and environmental awareness message.  Save The Kimberley will be providing information stalls at JBT’s Australian gigs and is on stage asking the question “What is the future for our Kimberley? Culture, Tourism and nature or heavy polluting industry?” and sharing our message of Environment Protection, Indigenous Tradition and Respect.

Albert Wiggan (pictured with John Butler) is a young Indigenous leader and family man who will be on stage telling his story and highlighting the importance of culture, including the song lines of his country, and the threat posed by proposed heavy Industry at James Price Point in the Kimberley – particularly in light of the WA Premier’s threat to compulsorily acquire land from the Indigenous Custodians to build a massive industrial facility. Elder and Cultural ‘law boss’ Joseph Roe will also be joining the tour for selected shows.


Support Save The Kimberley and the John Butler Trio


Our thank you and a short statement regarding celebrity support.



Xavier Rudd (pictured with John Butler and Missy Higgins) is currently touring the US and spreading the Save The Kimberley message.



Save The Kimberley would like to thank people like John Butler, Missy Higgins , Xavier Rudd and others who assist getting the message out as a counter balance to the vast financially backed and well oiled publicity  networks of government and resource companies. There has been some criticism of celebrities supporting our cause and we would like to clearly state our position that everyone has a right to their opinion and to be heard whether they are famous or not.

Coming soon

A statement from John Butler regarding why he supports Save The Kimberley,  more great photos from the tour and watch out for media coverage of the the tour and Save The Kimberley’s involvement.

Traditional custodian and law boss Joe Roe on tour with JBT fighting the imposition of Industry on his country





MULTIPLE ACCIDENTS ARE A GRAVE WARNING

June 16th, 2010

Keep OIL and GAS off the Kimberley CoastOIL SPILLS:  Cable Beach. The Timor Sea. The Gulf of Mexico.  As we digest the daily updates on BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, those of us considering the impacts of the potential industrial development on the Kimberley coastline see more and more reason for great caution.


Even the President of the United States is now heralding a new era equal to the impact of September 11 in which the environment is not put at such risk because the world will no longer tolerate it.

This would seem to spell significant delays if not abandonment of the Woodside proposal to bring gas onshore in the Kimberley because it conflicts with basic good sense in the light of these recent events.

Why?  Well, the last twelve months saw the WA and Federal government pushing so hard for greenfield industrial development on the Kimberley coastline that indigenous permissions, critical to its go-ahead, were plagued by their indecent haste.


Now, it appears there was never any valid agreement from Aborigines to sign off on the deal.

And the Federal Court is hearing an action against the KLC that Premier Barnett has said will prevent an ILUA being signed (for use of the land) by his previously confident June 30, 2010 deadline.

Throughout, Woodside and the WA government has appeared to stubbornly resist consideration of viable alternatives.

Then came disturbing hints that all is not safe and sound in the world of offshore mining.

In the same 12 months, oil spills have affected the Kimberley, the Great Barrier Reef and now the world’s greatest economy, with the worst-ever oil spill offshore southern USA.

These accidents have caused concern due to an apparent lack of accountability and the absence of fix-it-up engineering to battle what industry previously boasted about as state of the art technology — their wizardry now gone horribly wrong.

Woodside has constantly trumpeted “latest technology” for its Kimberley projects. But what good is cutting edge technology to enable such exploration and exploitation of the world’s resources if an error results in a devastating disaster of international proportions?

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KIMBERLEY GAS ISSUE GOES INTERNATIONAL

June 9th, 2010

On its June 4th program, prestigious American ABC TV program, Nightline questions potential industrial development in the Kimberley. In a six-minute Kimberley focused segment called, “The Most Beautiful Place on Earth,” journalist Dan Harris likens the Kimberley to “the Amazon you’ve never heard of“. To watch the piece, go to the link below:

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/beautiful-place-earth-10833119?&clipId=10833119&playlistId=10833119&cid=siteplayer