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For campaigners in this pastoral countryside adjacent to a world heritage site, a decision this month by the High Court of Australia was the culmination of a years-long legal battle against a global corporate giant.
A South Korean mining company that was seeking to establish an open-cut coal mine in Australia’s Bylong Valley has lost its bid to appeal to the High Court, which effectively ends its legal avenues to challenge the 2019 decision to scrap the project.