Eurobodalla bushfire survivors push barrow after barrow of charcoaled debris and melted bushfire remnants from their homes and properties on the South Coast, gaining national and international media attention in front of Parliament House in Canberra. Next they made their way to the door step of the nation’s peak fossil fuel industry lobbyist, just a ‘cosy’ stone throw away.
On 14 February 2020 while the so called ‘Forever Fires’ continued to burn, bush fire survivors and locals from the NSW South Coast joined with other Australians – and with our Pacific neighbours – to deliver a powerful message to the Minerals Council of Australia and coal lobby in Canberra – and to the nation’s leaders. Photography – Jesse Rowan, twice-times bushfire survivor, and photographer captured these two evocative images.
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The Trail of Destruction
Jesse Rowan writes
‘ Nick Hopkins and Jack Egan both lost their houses in our area. They and others collected burnt debris to bring to Canberra in February 2020 to display in wheelbarrows outside Parliament
House.
Those of us who joined this Trail of Destruction pushed these wheelbarrows from Parliament House to the steps of the Minerals Council of Australia. The idea was for bushfire survivors to shine a light on the coal lobby’s “trail of destruction”, and call for an end to the influence of the Minerals Council of Australia and the coal lobby over politicians and our democracy.
We delivered an invoice to the coal lobby group’s office for $1.3 billion – the most recent estimate of bushfire damages from insurers.’
