Good morning. A new class action against a leading aged care firm claims it charged some residents for services they could not use – for example, high teas for people on restricted diets, and Foxtel for unconscious patients.In other news, Queenslanders may end up paying to clean up abandoned mines, and we look at Spectacle Island in Sydney Harbour, off-limits for decades and now for sale in the big Defence property selloff.Plus: Australia have crushed England to win the Women’s T20 World Cup final.AustraliaThe open-cut Bluff coalmine. The amount of un-rehabilitated mined land in Queensland grew 12% from 2019 to 2024. Photograph: Sylvia Liber/The Guardian
Dirty legacy | Queenslanders are being warned they could be left to pay for the cleanup of abandoned mines if rehabilitation laws are weakened, after the government announced a plan to cut “red tape”.
Aged care fight | Residents at an aged care provider have launched a class action lawsuit alleging fees for services such as high teas and exercise classes were illegally charged to clients who can’t use them.
Analysis | In 2020 Australia’s biggest super fund dumped its shares in Whitehaven. Now it is the coalminer’s single biggest investor. What happened to AustralianSuper’s net zero pledge?
