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Wendy Bowman, 2019 by David Darcy Darling Portrait Prize 2020

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

She is not a theoretical or idealogical environmentalist. Wendy Bowman became an activist when her crops were ruined by polluted irrigation water and her cattle wouldn’t eat the grass covered in coal dust. She obtained a Land and Environment Court ruling in 2014 that stopped the expansion of a Chinese-owned open cut mine in the Upper Hunter.

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