Winning in an Unfair System - The Yessabah Caves Campaign

Vaughan-Taylor vs David Mitchell-Melcann was a lengthy legal struggle brought about to prevent a mining company, David Mitchell-Melcann, from extracting limestone out of Yessabah Hill, near Kempsey, NSW. Litigation brought by Keir Vaughan-Taylor through the Environmental Defenders Office, asserted that the Yessabah lease was invalid because it had lapsed. It also was subject to a National Parks objection. 

Join us to find out why the implications of this conservation battle resonate today.

About the Presenter.

Keir Vaughan-Taylor is a member of the Sydney University Speleological Society and Caves Australia. He has spent a lifetime exploring the caves and karst of NSW and the Nullarbor Plain. He became an active cave diver, mapping underground rivers at Jenolan and the lakes of many Nullarbor caves. 

He became involved in environmental campaigns at Mount Etna Qld, and later Yessabah and Jenolan, NSW. Keir was the lead campaigner in the fight to save Yessabah caves. He has published extensively on these issues.