CSG's last stand? In Narrabri everyone has a stake in the farming v mining fight

In the first of a series of investigations into issues facing regional Australia, we report on how locals in a north-western New South Wales town are bracing to learn the fate of the state's last coal seam gas project

Country towns are, by their nature, conservative. Change happens slowly and traditions are not discarded easily.

The conservative thinker Edmund Burke wrote that we must act as trustees of the world - what he called "temporary possessors and life renters", rather than its "entire masters".