High Court voids Hunter Valley coal mine expansion over overseas emissions
The High Court of Australia has delivered a landmark 3-2 ruling invalidating the expansion of the Mount Pleasant coal mine, establishing that planning authorities must consider exported Scope 3 emissions. Also in this briefing: the Coalition faces scrutiny over uncosted migration targets, and a Guardian Australia investigation reveals the neglect of indigent burials in public cemeteries.
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The High Court invalidated the Mount Pleasant coal mine expansion for failing to minimize overseas emissions.
Regulators must now account for downstream pollution regardless of where the coal is eventually burned.
Seventeen New South Wales coal project proposals are directly impacted by the High Court's procedural ruling.
The Coalition's plan to cut migration to one hundred thousand annually lacks formal Parliamentary Budget Office costing.
New South Wales is reviewing burial standards after veterans were found in unmarked, neglected communal graves.
Victoria provides separate plots and markers for the poor, unlike the communal burial system in New South Wales.
- 01Intro1 min
- 02High Court voids Hunter Valley coal mine expansion: The Ruling2 min
- 03High Court voids Hunter Valley coal mine expansion: The Precedent2 min
- 04Coalition admits its migration cut plan hasn't been costed by the Budget Office1 min
- 05Where things stand1 min
- 06Investigation finds people who die poor buried in unmarked, neglected cemetery ground2 min
- 07Outro1 min
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