Sunday, January 14, 2018

‘Lady Bushranger’ project approved after secret $5 million community fund revealed

From the Maitland Mercury report:
Ridgelands Coal Resources has coughed up after it was called out.
IT’S the 11th hour, the clock is ticking on a February deadline, but Ridgelands Coal Resources has signed off on $440,000 of community projects from a $5 million fund kept secret from the community for nearly five years.
Ridgelands has approved three Muswellbrook Shire Council projects, including $80,000 towards a Sandy Hollow village upgrade linked to one of Australia’s only female bushrangers, Elizabeth Jessie Hickman.

Full article available at Maitland Mercury, January 12 2018.