The Wire

Wiradjuri man STEVEN COE talks about his childhood playground which is now in the sights of Barrick Gold. The mining company has just been given access to Lake Cowal in central west New South Wales to start looking for gold. As well as trespassing on sacred wetlands, the Lake Cowal Gold Project will mean an environmental risk of cyanide poisoning. Activitists gathered outside the mining company’s headquarters in Perth on Wednesday this week to protest against the project going ahead and one of the protestors, MIA PEPPER of the Lake Cowal Action Group, spoke to JOSHUA FANNING