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Radio Adelaide: Huge Protest Sends Govt Jolt Over Mining Plans

Monday, 03 May 2010, 11:54 am
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Radio Adelaide: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – New Zealand News Round-Up

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    Scoop's Selwyn Manning and Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss how up to 50,000 people marched in opposition to the National-led Government's plan to mine schedule four conservation land. How likely is it that Cabinet will back off the plan? Has the National-led Government's support reached tipping point?






    • See Also: Scoop Report: Protest Against Mining 'Biggest In Living Memory'

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