Well done, Greg Hunt. Farmers (and the rest of us) do have a 'moral right' to land | Jason Wilson

With the environment minister's concession to farmers who have been fighting coal seam gas, we have a tacit admission that property rights aren't everything

On Sunday, environment minister Greg Hunt urged mining companies to recognise the "moral right" of farmers to the land they owned or leased. Hunt was responding to a question from Barrie Cassidy about coal seam gas extraction: should he not simply "give the farmers a right of veto" over new developments?

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