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Tuesday: ministerial review finds company part-owned by Angus Taylor illegally poisoned critically endangered grasslands and should restore native habitat. Plus: Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos

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The company part-owned by the energy minister, Angus Taylor, illegally poisoned critically endangered grasslands and should restore native habitat, a ministerial review has concluded. The decision follows an 18-month examination of the original determination which ordered Jam Land to restore grasslands, and comes more than five years after the company poisoned the natural temperate grassland of the south-eastern highlands. Richard Taylor, one of Jam Land’s directors, said the company was considering whether it would appeal the decision in the federal court.

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