Coal, energy policy and climate change bring Canberra heavyweights to the Hunter Region

Ian Kirkwood
Updated April 14 2021 - 11:21pm, first published November 17 2020 - 5:30am
GESTURE: Queensland Nationals MP and federal Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, Keith Pitt, with National Party NSW Senator Perin Davey, flanked by workers at Glencore's Bulga open-cut mine yesterday.
GESTURE: Queensland Nationals MP and federal Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, Keith Pitt, with National Party NSW Senator Perin Davey, flanked by workers at Glencore's Bulga open-cut mine yesterday.

THE Hunter is the centre of national and international political attention over coal, renewables and climate change after Joel Fitzgibbon's explosive exit a week ago from the federal Labor opposition front bench.

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Ian Kirkwood

Ian Kirkwood

Journalist

Reporting journalist at the Newcastle Herald since 1987. Editorial writer, general reporter, industrial relations, industry and coal.

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