Qualla: The Channon https://qualla.com/the-channon-new-south-wales en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/the-channon-new-south-wales-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Channon https://qualla.com/the-channon-new-south-wales The Channon: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-channon-new-south-wales/ Photo credit Staceynyx, CC BY-SA 3.0. Once a month, on the second Sunday, a village of a few hundred people swells with thousands. They come for the Channon Craft Market, a sprawl of stalls, buskers and food set out beneath the trees of Coronation Park - one of the oldest and largest markets of its kind in Australia, running continuously since 1976. But the market is more than a country fair. It was at gatherings like this one, among the alternative settlers who flocked to these green valleys in the 1970s, that an army was raised to stand in front of the bulldozers and save a rainforest. The Channon is small. Its influence on how Australia protects wild country is not.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/the-channon-new-south-wales-wp/r6vh-the-channon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Channon: Country Before the Cutters https://qualla.com/the-channon-new-south-wales/ Photo credit Peter Greenwell at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. The ridges and valleys around Terania and Tuntable Creeks are the country of the Widjabal, a portion of the wider Bundjalung nation and the traditional owners of this land. They knew the rainforest intimately. One traditional food was the seed of the burrawang, a cycad abundant i...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/the-channon-new-south-wales-wp/r6vh-the-channon-country-before-the-cutters.mp3 0:06 2 full The Channon: Cedar, Cream and a Butter Factory https://qualla.com/the-channon-new-south-wales/ Photo credit Kpravin2, CC BY-SA 3.0. European history here began with the cedar getters who pushed up the Richmond River system from the 1840s, allowed to log but not to settle. The first permanent settlers arrived in the 1880s and after, clearing the forest and turning to dairying. For decades cream was the distric...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/the-channon-new-south-wales-wp/r6vh-the-channon-cedar-cream-and-a-butter-factory.mp3 0:06 3 full The Channon: The New Settlers https://qualla.com/the-channon-new-south-wales/ Photo credit Peter Greenwell at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. By the early 1970s, the dairy industry was in decline and land was cheap - and that drew a very different kind of arrival. In the wake of the 1973 Aquarius Festival in nearby Nimbin, seekers of alternative lifestyles poured into the area, establishing multiple-occupancy communiti...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/the-channon-new-south-wales-wp/r6vh-the-channon-the-new-settlers.mp3 0:06 4 full The Channon: The Battle of Terania Creek https://qualla.com/the-channon-new-south-wales/ Photo credit Peter Greenwell at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. In 1979, loggers came for the rainforest at Terania Creek. The new settlers refused to let them in. What followed was a month-long blockade - one of the first direct-action environmental protests of its kind in Australia - as locals appealed to the crowds at the Channon market an...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/the-channon-new-south-wales-wp/r6vh-the-channon-the-battle-of-terania-creek.mp3 0:06 5 full The Channon: Gateway to the Rainforest https://qualla.com/the-channon-new-south-wales/ Photo credit Peter Greenwell at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. Today The Channon keeps the quiet rhythm of a hinterland village - a public school dating from 1922, war memorial gates honouring the local men who served in two world wars, a single general store, and Coronation Park at its heart. Like neighbouring Nimbin, it serves as a gateway...

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