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Mt Arthur mine approval highlights urgent need for mine closure and transition laws April 2025
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Warning that time is running out as NSW Government’s post-mining land use report falls short April 2025
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Expert panelists paid to do nothing as $100 million in coal region funding sits idle March 2025
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New Hunter Valley Operations coal project raises methane, mine closure planning issues Nov 2024
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Glencore backs down on monster HVO coal mine expansion Nov 2024
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Hunter residents ripped off by the mining industry: Survey reveals Muswellbrook locals want coal royalties hiked again June 2024
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Wish list reveals coal companies want to wriggle out of rehabilitation responsibility March 2024
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Hunter Valley locals invite city people to see for themselves the devastation coal mining has caused, March 2024
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Mining longer with no clear closure plan? BHP’s Mt Arthur debacle exposes government failings, Nov 2023
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Libs and Nats urged to board the Hunter Transition train, March 2023
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After the coal rush: New report sets out clean green blueprint for Hunter’s future Feb 2023
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New Hunter polling backs push to rehabilitate mining land July 2022
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Post-mining bonanza: Hunter’s $3.7 billion opportunity in renewable energy, biodiversity, agriculture, and manufacturing June 2022
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Hunter diversification panel no place for a coal mining lobbyist, March 2022
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The region speaks: Hunter people call for local coordinating authority, project funding and skills investment from NSW Government Nov 2021
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How would you spend $25m to make the Hunter better? Sept 2021
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Lock the Gate welcomes announcement of statutory panel to oversee Hunter region rejuvenation May 2021
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Coal boss university chancellor appointment sends wrong signal to region in need of leadership, May 2021
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Sluggish rehabilitation at Upper Hunter coal mines a jobs and environmental risk, May 2021
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NSW inquiry into energy and exports gives coal communities a chance to prepare and diversify, July 2019
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Coal communities will suffer if government ignores independents' plan March 2019
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Hunter can avoid economic decline if it takes early action, diversifies: report Feb 2019
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Polling reveals Upper Hunter voters support diversification away from reliance on coal June 2018
Hunter Renewal in other media
2025
2024
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Hunter businesses calling for a strong 2035 emissions reduction target, Investor Group on Climate Change 16/12/2024
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Glencore withdraws one mega coal mine expansion project in Hunter Valley, but fight not over, Green Left 11/10/2024
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Holding on to the family farm: Sophie’s climate action story, Investor Group on Climate Change 02/10/2024
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Sophie Nichols speaking at Public hearing - State Development - Beneficial and productive post-mining land use (at 2.33.06 mins) 21/08/2024
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Solar and batteries on farms – Sophie Nichols & Support Local Energy Hubs RE Alliance 14/08/2024
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Hunter union, community groups slam 'bureaucratic' state transition plan, Newcastle Herald 12/07/2024
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Upper Hunter residents demand bigger chunk of coal royalties cash, Newcastle Herald 01/06/2024
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Hunter Renewal collaboration with School of Architecture, University of Newcastle, ABC NSW Country Hour (starts at 5.55mins) 07/03/2024
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Push to make mining companies stick by rehabilitation commitments, Newcastle Herald 04/03/2024
2023
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Jobs not the only priority after the coal rush, (Opinion, pg 43) Newcastle Herlad 08/07/2023
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Strong commitments to action on climate and homelessness from NSW election Hunter candidates, despite no-show from Coalition Hunter Community Alliance 10/03/2023
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Australian coal miners should think carefully about what they do with their inflated cash balances, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis 09/03/2023
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The Hunter community’s vision, Sydney Knitting Nana's and Friends 20/02/2023
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Taking the power back, NSW Greens 19/02/2023
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Hunter's mining industry injected $6.3 billion into the Hunter economy in the last financial year, Newcastle Herald 13/02/2013
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Community blueprint to restore closing mining lands, The Wire Radio 13/02/2023
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Freeze on mining royalties, launch of a blueprint for the Hunter post-mining, and no Glendell Continuation Project appeal, Singleton Argus 08/02/2023
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‘We need to restore the land’: as coal mines close, here’s a community blueprint to sustain the Hunter Valley, The Conversation 08/02/2023
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Community wants control of latest boom after coal era, The Canberra Times 08/02/2023
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Report offers a blueprint for the Hunter Region's clean energy and environmental transition, Newcastle Herald 08/02/2023
2022
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“The experts are already here”: The role of local knowledge in sustainability transitions, New Economy Journal 30/08/2022
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Mining land transformation holds the key to region’s enormous economic potential, Hunter Business Review Magazine 01/08/2022
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Hunter Renewal group says Royalties for Rejuvenation expert panel may end up promoting coal mining, Newcastle Herald, 27/07/2022
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Hunter Lakes Scheme to repurpose mines and create supply chain jobs, Connecting Industry 20/07/2022
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Upper Hunter residents say coal mine rehab should include replanting woodland and forest corridors, Newcastle Herald 11/07/2022
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NSW State Budget: Hunter projects left 'high and dry' amid huge coal mining windfall, Newcastle Herald 21/06/2022
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NSW’s biggest coal mine to close in 2030. Now what about the workers? The Conversation 17/06/2022
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Repurposing Hunter Valley mines would trigger $3.7bn boost, Mining Digital 15/06/2022
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Big week for the energy transition in the Upper Hunter, Singleton Argus 01/04/2022
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Greens plan to subsidise wages of coal workers and support communities through winding down of coal 25/02/2025
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3 local solutions to replace coal jobs and ensure a just transition for mining communities, The Conversation 17/01/2022
2021
2020
2019
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Mount Thorley Warkworth: Steady as she goes, Australian Mining Review 04/09/2019
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Singleton's 'single engine economy' leaves its susceptible to coal price and demand fluctuations, Singleton Argus 26/08/2019
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Ten-year plan to phase out coal would ‘devastate’ families Daily Telegraph 19/08/2019
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Hunter set to lose 5000 jobs as global coal consumption and mining in the area winds down, Hunter Valley News 22/07/2019
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Inquiry Into Sustainability Of Energy Supply And Resources In NSW, Solar Quotes 19/07/2019
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Sydney MP Alex Greenwich wants an energy debate that won't be coal communities v climate change activists, Newcastle Herald 17/07/2019
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Lower house inquiry to set 'responsible road map' out of coal for NSW, Sydney Morning Herald 17/07/2019
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Inquiry to examine NSW's energy future, 7News.com.au 17/07/2019
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Opinion | Road to renewal is region's route to resilience , Newcastle Herald 04/06/2019
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Hunter Valley calls for tougher renewable energy policies, ponders transition to a post-coal future ABC News 09/03/2019
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Concerns for the future of Hunter Valley coal mining, despite it driving the local economy, ABC News 05/03/2019
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Lake MP Greg Piper says Hunter must prepare to transition away from coal, 02/03/2019
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Hunter communities must embrace renewable transition to shape their future, Singleton Argus 26/02/2019
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Environmental groups continues anti-coal campaign NBN News 19/02/2019
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NSW Minerals Council chief executive Stephen Galilee disputes findings of Lock the Gate commissioned report Muswellbrook Chronicle 13/02/2019
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PAT CONROY: We must plan beyond coal or be buried, Newcastle Herald 08/02/2019
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Report argues case to transition away from coal dependence Newcastle Herald 06/02/2019
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Report warns of job losses unless Hunter moves away from coal NBN News 06/02/2019
2018
Our work referenced in other reports
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Jobs aren't enough: Redefining just transitions in Australia with community voices, Energy Research & Social Science, April 2025
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Temporality and justice in mining impacted regions, Environmental Research: Energy, 2025
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Energy transition in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Regional Energy Transitions in Australia, 2024
- Examining the role of public participation and design in planning sustainability transitions, Crofts, Kimberley T, University of Technology Sydney, Nov 2024
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Reimagining Broken Landscapes as Part of the Transition in the Hunter Valley, NSW, Sustainable Development and Rural Public Health From Fossil Fuels to Greener Futures, July 2024
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Architecture for Complexity: Speculative Design as Enabler of Engagement in Co-Designing Post-Mining Futures in the Hunter Valley, Sustainability Journal, 2024
- Navigating economic transition: The Hunter Jobs Alliance, Journal of Australian Political Economy, June 2024
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Institutional, stakeholder and regulatory constraints to the redevelopment of mine sites to alternative employment- generating land uses: Hunter Valley case study, Mine Closure 2024: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mine Closure, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, 2024
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Regional-scale post-mining land-use transition: opportunities and challenges for industry and regulators, Mine Closure 2024: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mine Closure, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, 2024
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The emotional geographies of a coal mining transition: a case study of Singleton, New South Wales, Australia, Australian Geographer, 2023
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Regional report at the coal face of change: The Hunter region, NSW Law Society Journal, March 2023
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Reversing the Resource Curse? Energy Transition and Decolonisation, Journal of Australian Political Economy Special Theme Issue, Winter 2022
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A marshall plan for Australian coal country: an investment-led strategy to address resource dependency and fight climate change, Journal of Australian Political Economy, July 2022
- What Regions Need on the Path to Net Zero Emissions, The Next Economy, April 2022
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Hunter Renewable Energy Industrial Precinct Briefing Paper, Beyond Zero Emissions April 2022
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Aluminium Manufacturing and Australia’s Energy Advantage: Industrial Jobs in the Hunter, Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute, Feb 2022
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Transition: Stories of Communities Leading Change, Environment Victoria, 2021
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APSA Environmental Politics and Policy Workshop: Transforming Australia’s resource and energy governance, March 2021
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The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions Edited by Ortwin Renn, Frank Ulmer and Anna Deckert, 2020
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A Real Deal: A research action agenda for transforming Australia in and beyond the pandemic, Sydney Policy Lab September 2020
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Just Transition: Implications for the Corporate Sector and Financial Institutions in Australia, Global Compact Network/UTS/NAB October 2020
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From Coal to Renewables: Changing Socio-Ecological Relations of Energy in India, Australia and Germany, The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions, Sept 2019