Fracking a Fractured Community
Dianne will talk about the added complexities and challenges of running a campaign in a community that is deeply divided, and also has one of the highest rates of posttraumatic stress in the world, following 30 years of violence and brutal murder. How the politics of fear and the exploitation of that fear, impacts real issues, and the difficulties of political parties hi-jacking issues, or labelling them in attempt to undermine support, by branding them a particular colour of green or orange. She will relate what it is like to try to hold a cross community group and issue together when elected representatives seek to exploit divisions and conquer, to facilitate the gas industry.
Dianne will also talk about the potential social impacts of the fracking industry being allowed to come into a community, which remains unhealed from its painful past, and lacks social cohesion.