Activists sued over Kumarangk campaign
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — Five more organisations and individuals are being sued for defamation by Thomas and Wendy Chapman, the proprietors of the development company Binalong, formerly associated with the building of a bridge to Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island).
Summonses were issued to the Conservation Council of South Australia, Friends of Goolwa and Kumarangk, the Kumarangk Coalition, and Gregory and Christine Lundstrom, the proprietors of System Screen Print.
The Kumarangk Coalition is alleged to have published or caused to be published a leaflet in 1994 that allegedly made defamatory comments against the Chapmans. The CCSA and the Friends of Goolwa and Kumarangk are alleged to be members of the Kumarangk Coalition and therefore also to have published or caused to be published the same leaflet.
The summonses follow similar legal action taken by the Chapmans against Green Left Weekly and South Australian archaeologist, Neale Draper, in relation to a Green Left Weekly article about the Hindmarsh Island affair published in March this year.