Victorian Tent Embassy Alliance member will use spear to protect elders if threatened at Cobboboonee forest campsite

By Monique Patterson
Updated March 20 2019 - 7:45pm, first published 7:00pm
PROTECTING SACRED LAND: Mitch Vella, John Hand and Glenda Austin are part of a group of people who want to clean up and protect the Cobboboonee forest near Portland. Picture: Supplied
PROTECTING SACRED LAND: Mitch Vella, John Hand and Glenda Austin are part of a group of people who want to clean up and protect the Cobboboonee forest near Portland. Picture: Supplied

A GROUP of people who have been camping in the Cobboboonee National Park for the past 10 months are refusing to leave and threatening to spear anyone who tries to make them.

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