The NSW premier has shown Trumpian disdain for the damage burning coal is causing – and it may backfire on him | Bob Brown

Chris Minns has gone out of his way to help ban peaceful protest in Newcastle, the world’s biggest coal port. Voters will remember in MarchSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereWe know that El Niño climate patterns are supercharged by the burning of fossil fuels. In Europe, more than 50,000 people died of intolerable heat this year. And yet, in September the premier of New South Wales, Chris Minns, oversaw the largest coalmine expansion in the sta

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