It is perhaps a measure of how much the climate wars have calmed in recent times that coal is no longer the word on the lips of the main combatants in Upper Hunter.
On April 8, 2021, Nationals candidate Dave Layzell stood beside then treasurer Dominic Perrottet and John Barilaro at Glencore's Ravensworth mine to spruik the Coalition's coal credentials in the lead-up to the May by-election.
