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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Science
Lisa Cox

Court upholds finding that company part-owned by Angus Taylor illegally cleared grasslands

In 2020, an investigation concluded that grasslands in NSW owned by Jam Land had been cleared illegally.
In 2020, an investigation concluded that grasslands in NSW owned by Jam Land had been cleared illegally. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

A legal challenge to the finding that Jam Land, the company part-owned by the former energy minister Angus Taylor and his brother Richard, had illegally cleared critically endangered grasslands, has been dismissed.

The company had lodged an appeal in the federal court to an order that it restore 103 hectares (254 acres) of grasslands on a property in Corrowong in NSW.

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