Opinion | Wollar residents 'invisibly displaced'

By Hedda Askland
April 20 2017 - 1:00am
CHANGING LANDSCAPE: Wollar resident Bev Smiles has seen her community gradually bought out by mining giant Peabody Energy. Picture: Ryan Osland
CHANGING LANDSCAPE: Wollar resident Bev Smiles has seen her community gradually bought out by mining giant Peabody Energy. Picture: Ryan Osland

I DON’T feel I have a future anyway, so I may as well go to jail. Take me!’ These are the words of Bev Smiles, resident of the Upper Hunter village of Wollar.

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