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Australia vows to keep mining coal despite climate warning

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Australia's conservative leaders have defied calls for urgent climate action, boasting they will sell coal for as long as anyone is buying. When dozens of countries, meeting at COP26 talks in Glasgow, recently agreed to phase out coal, Australia baulked."We are not closing coal mines and we are not closing coal-fired power stations," said resource minister Keith Pitt, using the opportunity to boast about the quality of Australian coal and 300,000 Australian jobs linked to the sector.

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