Adani Carmichael mine in Queensland gets another green light from Coalition

Australia's largest coalmine, which green groups consider a threat to the Great Barrier Reef, is approved again only two months after being knocked back in federal court challenge

Australia's largest coal project, Adani's Carmichael mine, has again been given the green light by the federal government two months after it was stripped of its approval after a federal court challenge.

The $16.5bn mine and rail development, earmarked for the Galilee basin region of central Queensland, had its federal approval set aside in August after it emerged that Greg Hunt, the environment minister, had not considered its impact upon two vulnerable species, the yakka skink and the ornamental snake.