Sydney-based mural artist Scott Marsh has transformed a wall in Chippendale to protest coal’s power over Australian politics.
The mural, located on the corner of Grafton and Shepherd streets, features mining magnate Gina Rinehart, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison along with Alan Jones, Clive Palmer, Andrew Bolt and Barnaby Joyce.
Marsh painted “The Ivory Tower” mural to depict the “intertwined beast” comprising the Coalition government, coal industry and conservative media, and to promote the Dirty Power: Burnt Country documentary released in mid-May by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
The documentary exposes how powerful forces worked to hide the role of climate change in the recent Black Summer bushfires which engulfed south-eastern Australia and emitted smoke which spread across the planet.
Dirty Power: Burnt Country, which can be viewed free online, also highlights how:
- More than 100 million tonnes of new coal mining was approved during the 2019-20 bushfire crisis.
- News Corp published 75 per cent of all articles denying climate change’s role in the fires, despite only publishing 46 per cent of articles about climate change and the fires.
- Australia’s “Dirty Power Network” sees people switching between positions in the government, the conservative media and the coal industry to secure policies and actions that put the mining and burning of coal, gas, and oil above all else, even the safety of Australian families.
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