Jones backtracks on Gillard comment

ALAN JONES arrived in Canberra yesterday and found himself in furious agreement with the Greens and admitting he had overstepped the mark with some of the things he had said about the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.

''Time for the nation to wake up'' … Alan Jones has vowed to fight the coal seam gas miners. He is against the negative effects the mining will have on farming. Credit:Andrew Meares

Jones has taken up the cudgels against the rapacious expansion and effect of coal seam gas and coal mining on food-producing land in NSW and Queensland and took it to the National Press Club.

Nothing much scares miners, certainly not this federal government, but Jones's campaign, driven by his own upbringing on a farm on the Darling Downs, had several nervous coal seam gas lobbyists ringing around before and after.