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Premium Content  The $30 billion Queensland coal export industry will continue under an Albanese Government, with the Opposition leader voicing his strongest support for the sector yet. In a bid to repudiate LNP attacks, Anthony Albanese will say today that the jobs of miners will not be cut short by his policies. Mr Albanese will also say the manufacturing industry would be restarted by bringing power prices down through investment in renewable energy, targeting blue-collar workers who turned their back on Labor. Opposition leader Anthony Albanese will openly back continued coal mining jobs in Australia at a clean energy summit on Tuesday. Picture: NCA NewsWire /Jono Searle
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Community opposition won t sway decision on PEP-11: Minister Keith Pitt
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Minister brushes off gas exploration fears, as company seeks PEP-11 licence extension
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Julia Lee says she ll continue to protest against PEP-11.
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The Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt has dismissed concerns about a proposed exploratory gas well off the New South Wales coast, describing it as the size of a dining room table .
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Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt and NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro will determine the outcome
Protesters gathered on Newcastle s Bar Beach yesterday, calling for the licence to be scrapped
Several protests have been held in Sydney, Newcastle and on the Central Coast in recent months to raise concerns about the PEP-11 exploration licence, which stretches from Manly on the Northern Beaches to Nobbys Head.
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Subscriber only Children caught driving dangerously or while drunk or drugged are escaping with their licence intact when they are given cautions or diversions. It comes as the State Government moved to strengthen laws around youth justice to target Queensland s 400 recidivist juvenile offenders. The changes came about after Kate Leadbetter and Matthew Field were killed on Australia Day, allegedly by a youth in a stolen car, as they walked their dogs in Alexandra Hills. Kate and Matthew were expecting their first child, a baby boy they planned to name Miles. The teenager driver posted photos of himself from his hospital bed. Picture: Supplied.