The moral high ground is, they believe, exclusively the preserve of environmental activists in their war against fossil fuels. This they enthusiastically occupied last week in their attack on the decision by the Turnbull coalition government (supported by Gary Gray, Labor’s resources spokesman) to grant, once again, after a legal hiccup, conditional environmental approval to the massive Carmichael steaming coal development in Queensland’s Galillee basin.
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