Songs for the Kimberley

Melbourne joins the campaign against the Western Australian governments compulsory acquisition of traditional lands on the Kimberley coast near Broome, WA, for the development of an LNG processing plant at Walmadan (James Price Point), 50 kilometres north of Broome on the Dampier Peninsula.
On Saturday 20 November, approximately 600 people will attend Songs for the Kimberley, a fundraising benefit in Fitzroy featuring popular Australian musicians and Victorian Greens representatives, to show their support for the Goolarabooloo custodians of this coastline in their legal challenge to save their country.<p>
Songs for the Kimberley will raise funds to assist the Goolarabooloo Community in their ongoing legal challenges before the Federal and Supreme Courts of WA; and raise community awareness of the significant Indigenous cultural, social, archaeological and environmental values threatened by the proposed development.<p>
Goolarabooloo Law Keeper and Custodian, Joseph Roe, and Green party representatives will join an impressive line-up of 17 acts including; Shane Howard, the songwriter behind Goannas 1982 anthem for Aboriginal rights, Solid Rock; Stephen Pigram, the lead singer of renowned Broome band The Pigram Brothers; and award winning songstresses, Sally Dastey and Leah Flanagan.<p>

<b>What Songs for the Kimberley<br>
Where J-Studios 100 Barkly Street, North Fitzroy 3068. Melways ref: 30 B10.<br>
When 1pm 10pm, Saturday 20 November 2010.<br></b><p>

The plight of the Goolarabooloo community to protect their traditional lands from expansive industrial development by oil and gas giants Woodside, Shell, Chevron, BHP and BP is part of a larger campaign for the Kimberley, which has already garnered support Australia wide from environmental groups, high profile celebrities, prominent politicians and business people.
Senator Bob Brown recently stated, This beautiful place, with its historic songlines and deep, ancient Indigenous heritage is also a living ecological treasure which the gas hub will wreck. The social and environmental costs are
unacceptable. Walmadan, 13 October 2010.
Songs for the Kimberley is organised by No Land Grab - Melbourne Group; a committee of volunteers who have undertaken the Goolarabooloo familys annual Lurujarri Heritage Trail, which forms part of the curriculum for RMIT and Latrobe University subjects.

For more information, an event program or to arrange interviews, please contact:
Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman, Media Coordinator, No Land Grab Melbourne Group

Phone: 0401 476 839
Email: bernadettett@gmail.com