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Who says banks don't back coal?

IT SEEMS to have become an article of faith that no major Australian bank will back a coal project these days but that is not the case.

The banks are still backing coal.

The banks are still backing coal.

Sure, Westpac rolled out its Climate Change Position Statement and 2020 Action Plan and the green groups like to point to that as the bank's promise to not back coal. So why is it and the National Australia...

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