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Breaking news: Court rejects Palmer mine expansion over Indigenous human rights concerns

Queensland's Land Court has today rejected a bid by Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal to develop Australia's largest thermal coal mine in the Galilee Basin, in a landmark ruling which took into account the human rights and climate change impacts of the proposal.

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