24-03-2018 22:18 via theguardian.com

Hemmed in by big coal: 'A bad feeling is constantly hanging over us'

With seven coalmines and a gas company surrounding their cattle property, a Queensland family is battling to stay putIt’s a hot summer’s afternoon at Riverside station, 50km north of the purpose-built mining town Moranbah in the central Queensland highlands. Jeanette and Allan Williams are drinking tea and eating Christmas cake around the kitchen table with three of their six children. Holly and twins Claire and Charles have returned to live and work on the family’s 80,000-hect
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