High profile footballer David Pocock protested at Maules Creek in November last year. No conviction was recorded.
WHITEHAVEN Coal chief executive Paul Flynn has criticised the judiciary for letting illegal protesters off with “no more than a whipping with a feather” as the company considers prospects for the development of its next new mine, the Vickery project in the Gunnedah Basin.
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