Farmers protest against Shenhua coal mine - NSW, Australia (video)
The other new coal mine the maniac Lieberals want to build in Australia (apart from the QLD Reef wrecking Adani thing) is a bloody great big one in prime New South Wales farmland. Part of our food bowl. Australia has a lot of desert so farmland like this is precious to us, and the gov wants dig it up for coal FFS. Coal that China doesn't even need anymore. Watch as young farmers talk the talk of evil leftie greenies! Farmers who recognise climate change, the demise of coal, and the unfolding of renewable energy to save the planet. These farmers on the Liverpool plains realise too that it now means saving their very farm land from coal mining. BTW, I think the first video bloke is a touch deluded. Malcolm Turnbull will listen to reason? *pffffft*
After 30 years of very physical full time work in the printing industry our print dept was outsourced and we all lost our jobs. As I'd gotten HIV beforehand and was having trouble attending and doing work I discussed with my HIV doctor whether I should apply for the Australian Disability Support Pension. He agreed,and I became a DSP pensioner under the new Gillard rules of adherence that now sees 75% of DSP applicants rejected.
Have been diagnosed with PTSD, severe depression, chronic kidney failure, and of course HIV. I'd become suicidal in 2009 after 3 extreme life events in a row; My best friend killed herself in the US (I don't make friends easily BTW), my teenage/young adult daughter had me charged by the police with a minor problem, and I was diagnosed with HIV. All in three weeks.
Some say god won't give you more than you can bear, my reply is "Well what happened to me?" If not for the HIV support here in Australia and me being able to have access to it I'd likely be dead by now. Unbearable pain often causes suicide, no matter physical or mental.
Today I've not worked since being made redundant. I remain with episodes of depression and panic attacks, sometimes severe. I may be fine and happy to leave the house, at times I'm paralised in bed, secure and safe and not willing to face the world.
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