At last Australia’s beleaguered coal industry has something going for it. After being labelled unethical by Sydney’s Anglican church and a couple of equally precious universities that have decided to divest themselves of shares in this dirty fossil fuel, under constant attack from the Greens, vilified for wanting to mine some non-cultivated hills near the fertile Liverpool Plains and maybe disturbing the water table (another good populist platform for Alan Jones), damned for its CO2 emissions that (‘the science is settled’) cause global warming, criticised for wanting to export coal to India from Abbott Point (the name is bad enough!),...