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Fairfield residents vote to become coal dust free

July 19, 2015

Residents of Fairfield and surrounding suburbs voted at a community meeting yesterday to make their suburb coal dust free for the sake of their health. They are concerned about the amount of coal dust blanketing their region already, and the threat of even more dust...

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The Speaker to pass on community objection rights concerns to Qld Premier

July 13, 2015

The Speaker, Peter Wellington, today accepted a landmark document from Darling Downs residents seeking to have the rights of the community to object to coal mines re-instated. The previous LNP government took away the rights of local communities to have their objections to coordinated...

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