'Checklist of signs...' an artists book about mining

Some of the texts in this book, there are 20 in all, are as follows:

Instead of Weetbix or Cocoa Pops and milk for breakfast you have coal grits.
When you can’t afford your power bill you cook using coal spill gleaned from railway lines and roads.
Your farming friends can’t ship their produce to cities and ports as all freight options are biased towards the year-round transport of coal.
Your art exhibitions opening crowds are split between the tradies and the drillers drinking your beer and their managers drinking your wine – neither buy your art.
All of your rustic old community pubs have been remodeled into nite clubs and commodious verandahs enclosed to stop drunks throwing up – tossing bottles – or falling off onto the pavement below.
The occasional distant thunder that you once may have thought be an approaching storm now turns out to be the constant thunder of B-Double trucks shipping coal.

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