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The perpetual motion machine that is the Australian approvals process

WINNING government approval for a mining project is not what it used to be, as <i>Hogsback</i> has been noticing in the Rio Tinto coal-mining dispute in NSW, and which he might soon be watching in the case of Clive Palmer’s coal project in Queensland.

Tim Treadgold

The perpetual motion machine that is the Australian approvals process

On the surface there appears to be big differences between the problems dogging Rio Tinto’s plans to expand its Warkworth and Mount Thorley mines near Bulga in NSW and Palmer’s plans for his China First...

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