'Inconceivable': Hunter coal plan may spell disaster for prime wine country

A coalminer's application for a lease in the middle of the famous wine region has galvanised local oppositionThe Broken Back Range has always loomed large in Sally Scarborough's life.She grew up in Cessnock in its foothills, amid wine country and the Great Dividing Range of the New South Wales Hunter Valley. But beyond the state forest lay rural farmland - and coalmines. Continue reading...