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Emotionally-charged speeches are heard as part of an investigation into whether Aboriginal heritage has been overlooked in the conditional approval of the Shenhua mine.
Topics: aboriginal, mining-environmental-issues, gunnedah-2380, breeza-2381
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Environmental groups claim a mining licence over the Liverpool Plains, in northern New South Wales, needs to be ripped up because a deadline on starting work will soon pass.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, breeza-2381
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government orders an investigation into whether Aboriginal heritage and sacred sites have been overlooked in the conditional approval of Shenhua's proposed Watermark mine.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, breeza-2381
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| UpdatedDeputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has cast significant doubt over the likelihood of a proposed mine going ahead in his New England electorate.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, federal-elections, federal-government, breeza-2381, china
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| UpdatedThe pilot of a helicopter that crashed in the New South Wales Hunter region, killing all three onboard, had his licence suspended in 2013 for a series of flying offences.
Topics: emergency-incidents, breeza-2381, cessnock-2325, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThree people killed in a helicopter crash in the New South Wales Hunter Valley are remembered as committed and passionate contributors to the environmental movement in Australia.
Topics: emergency-incidents, breeza-2381, cessnock-2325, sydney-2000, mona-vale-2103
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| UpdatedThe wreckage of a helicopter that went missing after taking off from Breeza, in northern NSW, with the pilot, his wife and a documentary maker onboard is found in the Hunter region, with no survivors.
Topics: emergency-incidents, breeza-2381, sydney-2000, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedA search is underway for a helicopter with three people aboard which has not been heard from since leaving Breeza in northern New South Wales on Saturday afternoon.
Topics: emergency-incidents, breeza-2381, sydney-2000, nsw
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Topics: industry, mining-industry, environment, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, breeza-2381
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| UpdatedThe community has called for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to personally intervene and stop the Chinese-owned Shenhua Watermark Mine from going ahead on the Liverpool Plains in north-west NSW.
Topics: industry, mining-industry, environment, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, community-and-society, breeza-2381
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Topics: industry, mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, breeza-2381
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Topics: beef-cattle, breeza-2381, mermaid-beach-4218, tamworth-2340, willow-tree-2339
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A family-owned beef brand from the Liverpool Plains has won the inaugural World Steak Challenge.
Topics: livestock, beef-cattle, willow-tree-2339, breeza-2381, tamworth-2340
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Jack's Creek managing director Patrick Warmoll says the judges highlighted the marbling in their steak entered into the competition. audio
Topics: beef-cattle, rural, breeza-2381, willow-tree-2339, tamworth-2340
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Opponents of Shenhua's large open-cut coal mine in the Liverpool Plains district are calling on new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to cancel the mine's approval.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, breeza-2381
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| UpdatedA Liverpool Plains environment group launches legal action challenging the approval of the Shenhua open-cut coal mine claiming the impact on koalas was not properly considered by the NSW Government.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, breeza-2381, nsw
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The New South Wales Land Court will hear a challenge to Shenhua mine based on threat to local koala populations today.
Topics: mining-rural, endangered-and-protected-species, mining-environmental-issues, environmental-impact, breeza-2381, tamworth-2340, sydney-2000
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, activism-and-lobbying, breeza-2381
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Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, breeza-2381
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| UpdatedAgriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce says that the proposed Shenhua Watermark coal mine on the Liverpool Plains in NSW will be "in the middle of Australia's best agricultural land. There might be other land that is as good, but there's none better".
Is the mine actually located in the middle of the Liverpool Plains, and are the Liverpool Plains Australia's best agricultural land? ABC Fact Check investigates.
Topics: environment, nationals, gunnedah-2380, breeza-2381
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Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, breeza-2381
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Spring Ridge farmer Sarah Hubbard, Breeza farmer John Hamparsum and traditional owner Dolly Talbot from Gunnedah explain to Cassie Hough why they've taken to the rural roads of the NSW north west to protest about the approval of the Shenhua coal mine.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, coal, environmental-impact, breeza-2381, gunnedah-2380
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| UpdatedA convoy of tractors has travelled across the Liverpool Plains in northern New South Wales today, as farmers express their opposition to the proposed Shenhua Watermark mine.
Topics: mining-rural, agricultural-policy, rural-youth, breeza-2381
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Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-management, environmental-impact, breeza-2381
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Independent Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie is planning Legislation to protect prime agricultural land from extractive industries, as she meets with Liverpool Plains farmers to discuss their concerns about Shenhua's Watermark Mine on the Liverpool Plains.
Topics: rural, agricultural-policy, mining-environmental-issues, gunnedah-2380, breeza-2381