On the front line

Adrian spent his 20's campaigning on the front line of forest campaigns in Victoria, including helping run the Greater Otway National Parks Campaign through the Otway Ranges Environment Network.

On December the first, 1998, was assaulted by a logger while attempting to conduct a botanical survey of a logging coupe behind Lorne in Otway Forest of Victoria.

He was struck twice by a logger wielding an axe handle, the second blow landing on the side of his head, knocking him unconscious. The logger had previously assaulted another environmentalist that day in a separate incident.

Despite Adrian and a second witness, stating that he had been attacked, the police chose not to press charges, as the loggers claimed he had tripped over a dog and hit his head on the axe on the way down.