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A decision by BHP to close NSW’s largest coal mine in 2030 has put the future of its 2000 workers under the spotlight amid demands for the Albanese government to step in and safeguard the state’s coal-rich Hunter Valley region. 

Meanwhile, billionaire Clive Palmer has hit Chinese conglomerate CITIC with a claim for $941.5m in unpaid royalties in the latest twist in a legal battle once likened to Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth by a Supreme Court judge. 

And demographer Bernard Salt says evidence across the ABS’s labour force job survey shows a changing property landscape in the post-Covid world. The jobs on the rise are in the suburbs, in the home, and perhaps attached to health precincts, he says.