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Monday: Winemakers lobby for protection from coal operations. Plus: federal government accused of delaying legislation
Good morning. Winemakers in NSW are fighting to keep mines out of their vines. The federal government has been accused of twiddling its thumbs by not acting on key election promises until the eleventh hour. And the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has told the IOC she is 'safe and well".
Hunter Valley winemakers are fighting to protect the region from industrial development after the Chinese-owned coal producer Yancoal lodged an assessment lease for sites in the heart of wine country. They are lobbying the NSW government to pass legislation to form a protective ring around the area - as has been done for the wine-producing Barossa Valley in South Australia and Margaret River in Western Australia. We don't want to come up against this in 10 years' time when there's another exploration licence around ... we want to stop its renewal so we don't go through this process again and again," says one winemaker, Sally Scarborough.
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