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Miklos Bolza

DARK SECRETS: Airport sized farmland illegally cleared - The Real Truth

A judge has ruled trees and vegetation were cleared without approval at a northern NSW farm. (Glenn Hunt/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

More than 1200 hectares of native trees felled and burned to make way for an airstrip, crops and cattle yards on a northern NSW farm were illegally cleared, a judge has found.

Auen Grain Pty Ltd and its director Ronald Lewis Greentree bulldozed, ploughed and burned vegetation in an area larger than the size of Sydney Airport.

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