Bob Brown to speak at “Convoy” screening

FORMER senator and Australian Greens leader, author and namesake to the Bob Brown Foundation, Bob Brown, will be in Dubbo on Monday, November 4, to speak at a local screening of the “Convoy”.

The film documents the Stop Adani Convoy which departed Hobart, Tasmania, on Wednesday, April 18, this year and made its way up the east coast of Australia to the Galilee Area, then south to Canberra by Sunday, May 5.

Local woman Sally Forsstrom joined the Stop Adani Convoy at the rally in Mullumbimby, travelling to

Airlie and Mackay.

“The entire convoy camped at Clermont Showground for a two-day rally with the Wangan and Jagalingou people who are opposed to the proposed Adani coalmine on their land,” she told

“The politicians are letting us down because they’re trying to politicise our concerns about the future of this country. It’s really clear that the politicians are not looking at the future of our country or the future of our people. They’re looking at their own profits. It really annoys me,” she said.

Mrs Forsstrom is actively campaigning to protect the local

Dubbo’s Sally Forsstrom is organising a screening of the Stop Adani Convoy documentary, “Convoy”. PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS

region through her work with Knitting Nannas and the Dubbo group against CSG, and has volunteered to assist with the screening of “Convoy”.

“The idea for the film screening is they’re doing a drought convoy. They’re doing Albury,

Canberra, Bathurst, Dubbo, Moree, Toowoomba and Brisbane,” Mrs Forsstrom said.

“Convoy” will screen at 6pm on Monday, November 4, at Wesley Hall on Church Street, Dubbo. $10. Children welcome.