The proposed Shenhua Watermark coal mine in northern New South Wales will be allowed to relocate 262 koalas and destroy their natural habitat, the Land and Environment Court has ruled.

The decision upholds the development approval of a mine that Nationals leader and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce labelled "ridiculous" because of its proximity to prime agricultural land.

The court case was brought by local environment group Upper Mooki Landcare, who claimed the Planning Assessment Commission failed to properly assess the danger of the $1.2 billion project to the koala population.

It's moving. The support for the monarchy is becoming entrenched in Generation Y. The February 6-7, 2016 Weekend Australian confirmed what the Australian Female Press has been telling us all along. Young people are more interested in royal tits, royal bums, royal bumps and royal bubs than their naughty revolutionary left-wing trotskyist parents. 

The Graun’s recent (anonymously authored) “Observer view on…” reads like sullen teenage grafitti. Rddled with ignorance and misinformation, it would more fittingly be scribbled in the back of an exercise book, accompanied by an unflattering cartoon of a maths teacher. The introduction:

"The Kerry-Lavrov pact is as shot full of holes as an Aleppo block of flats"

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Media Statement

Senator Jacqui Lambie

12.2.16

Former defence minister David Johnston is being tipped to fill the role of Australia's consul-general to Hong Kong and Macau.