This is disturbing footage.
Compare Denis Napthine, smiling and in his suit, repeating the fraudulent jobs mantra, with Anne Gardner talking about the affects of Macarthur wind farm on her family and her community.
“We’re desperate,” she says. “We don’t know what to do. We can’t live in our homes and we can’t go on.”
Have you noticed that wind farm developments are facilitated, perpetrated and enabled by men?
And these men are engineers, politicians and acousticians (educated, self-appointed smarties), as well as slick wind farm executives working for Australian and overseas companies.
And the fight AGAINST big wind is largely coming from women, mainly rural women: Sarah Laurie, Annie Gardner, Mary Morris, Patina Schneider, Colleen Watt and others.
Women are the centre of family life.
Women, as mothers, have a distinct and immediate urge to protect.
Rural women have an inherent belief in the quality and sanctuary of their local communities.
There are other types of women, of course.
Look at Greens leader Christine Milne, or psychologist Sarah Edelman. But these are women who, on this issue, have stepped into a diagnostic area where they have no direct experience or expertise.
They have moved away from matters of the heart and common sense into the dry and blistered area of ideology.
And by so doing, they have left behind any ability they may have once had to nurture and protect. They have lost the ability to see with clarity.
As Helen Keller, who though blind also gazed upon the face of her own sense of the unspeakable, said: “As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
So where are the strong women in the government on this issue? Where are Gillard and Wong and Plibersek and Macklin?
Would you expect them to be standing beside their country sisters in this war on home and heart, health and community?
Gillard, that great defender of women’s rights, the red feminine firebrand against Parliamentary misogynists.
And we add to this list our Governor General, Quentin Bryce.
Waubra resident Sam Stepnell wrote to her pleading for help.
The hills of Waubra and Macarthur and Waterloo echo to the sounds of turbines and locals, frequently women – voices in the wind – saying this must stop.
Our country women have been left to fend for themselves against big business with its easily-bought consultants, corrupt corporations with deep pockets, tainted government departments, weak politicians currying votes, and a green steamroller intent on destroying our land.
History will look back on these times and judge those in power as having failed. On this issue alone they have failed this country. They have failed rural families. They failed any test of common human decency.
STOP THESE THINGS 
Maybe women are louder in protesting. At the opening with Dr.Napthine there were men protesting but most have to support their families and could not attend. Its not a case of men versus women only idiots in government who will not listen to the harm they are doing to the beautiful country.
Women are rising up again Mr Dennis Napthine, look out. I was part of the rising of women in the 1970’s to demand equal pay, childcare, family planning etc and it is happening again. The women are demanding their right to health and to enjoy the environment and amenity of their homes for their famillies. It is a human right.
Your comments at the opening of theMacarthur industrial wind factory showed that you are ignorant of the facts of wind energy and that you do not care one jot for the rural families that are suffering, some to the point of abandonning their homes. Do this at your peril. How many people have to get sick before you will listen or even try to inform yourself of their situation?
Meanwhile you seem to be parrotting the mantra of the wind companies.
Talking of women,nobody has spoken of the unborn babies, pregnant women with turbine exposure receiving stress and no sleep is not a winning formula for healthy baby.
I agree we have to stop the wind farm but it is not an issue of men verse women It is simply bad policy by a so called government controlled by the unions and the greens with a coalition party with out enough guts to openly state their position
Our governments have given the wind industry the right to destroy our environment, ruin our communities, disregard the laws that were put in place to protect us, and steal our money. How much more obvious can this scam be??????
Fascinating look at this issue. You guys are amazing. Keep it coming.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Fighting tooth and nail to protect our homes, families and communities.
NOT “anti wind activists”
We are pro family, pro community, pro rural Australia, pro democracy, pro fairness, pro TRUTH
The so called women of power – Gillard, Wong and others have taken the easy road in life and fallen in with idiology. Ask them what is wrong with STRONG women standing up for family, home and supporting their husbands. The answer is nothing but will they admit and support it? Those women who support their families have not ‘sold out’ to the world of power and what at one time would have been called the world governed by men. It would appear silence from the Gillards of this world suggests they have capitulated to that world which they used to defile. Who is stronger them or those who are true to themeselves and the life they love, their families and communities. The world of Industrial Wind Energy may be run by men but they are aided and abetted by women who COULD actually make a difference and bring about changes that help others, instead they pander to the money and swoon in what they believe is power they hold. Power doesn’t belong to one gender but all gender and those who hold the fort and work for their communities and while their partners and fathers try to keep working to ensure a future home and life for their families are FAR STRONGER.