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Today we’re back in court challenging the federal government’s approval of Adani’s giant polluting coal mine.  It’s our appeal hearing challenging the government’s approval of the mine. When it comes to our air, water and wildlife, this is the biggest court challenge since they tried to dam the Franklin River. We don’t accept that our government can ignore the impact 4.6 billion tonnes of pollution will have on our Great Barrier Reef. They're using the drug dealer’s defence – if Australia doesn't let Adani dig up coal to burn it, some other country will. It’s time the Turnbull government takes responsibility for the damage this stuff does. The drug dealer's defence is a sham. With your support, we’ll be arguing before the full bench of the Federal Court that Adani’s mine will wreck our reef.

This is an historic case and the ultimate test of our environment laws. If they can’t protect our reef from its biggest threat – global warming – they aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

If we win this case, it will set a precedent – no government will be able to wave through another coal project without considering the impact the coal pollution will have on our Great Barrier Reef.

We’re taking on the government and the big polluters in court because we, the people, have to stop them. Coal pollution is damaging our climate, fuelling heatwaves and bushfires, hurting communities and bleaching our reef.

This week, the government’s own data came out and shows Australia’s climate pollution is rising. And coral scientists are warning the next wave of bleaching is just around the corner.

But instead of leading on cutting pollution and shifting to clean energy, the Turnbull Government is hellbent on pandering to big polluters. They want to hand over a billion dollars of public money to Adani and corrupt our Clean Energy Finance Corporation by using it to fund coal.

Australians want leadership and representatives who act for people, not big polluting companies. We have to hold the Turnbull Government to account.

Coal pollution is a clear and present danger to life. We can’t let Adani build this mine and fuel dangerous global warming and an unsafe future.

Can you chip in to cover the costs of our court case so we can hold the government to account?

Kelly O'Shanassy
Chief Executive Officer