Sydney Morning Herald: It was the Newman government's great hope for Queensland's economy: a proposal for Australia's biggest coal development, unprecedented in scale.
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's mammoth Carmichael mine, in central Queensland, is pledged to bring with it 10,000 jobs and $22 billion in taxes and royalties.
Undoubtedly this is a project of national significance. It promises to open the vast inland Galilee Basin. To allow that to happen there is a need for a new coal rail line, hundreds of kilometres...