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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Natasha May in the Mudgee region with photography by Blake Sharp-Wiggins

‘We are horrified’: proposed lead mine in wine region has community living in fear for children’s health

Woman with two children in front of a tree
Lisa Price worries for her children's health if a lead mine is approved as the young family’s closest neighbour. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

Lisa Price’s daughters chortle as they play in the empty cattle trough, before chasing each other across the paddocks that disappear into a cornflower blue horizon amid the rolling hills of central west New South Wales.

It’s exactly the kind of wholesome childhood scene that made Price decide to bring up her children on the farm that had been in her husband’s family for generations.

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