The emotional geographies of a coal mining transition: a case study of Singleton, New South Wales, Australia

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Figure 1. Location of Singleton, New South Wales, Australia.

Table 1. Publishers of Analysed Media Articles.

	Publisher	Number of Articles	Date Range
1	Newcastle Herald	9	11/04/22–02/07/22
2	The Guardian Australia	4	19/05/19–04/05/22
3	ABC News	4	25/02/22–19/05/22
4	Sydney Morning Herald	2	14/04/22–18/04/22
5	The Singleton Argus	2	02/05/22–29/06/22
6	Hunter River Times	2	17/06/22
7	SBS News	1	20/10/21
8	The Australian	1	23/04/22
9	The Saturday Paper	1	07/05/22

Table 2. Publishers of Political Campaign Material and Types of Material Published.

Publisher of Campaign Material	Facebook Posts Mentioning Coal and Transition	Corflutes/Banners Mentioning Coal and Transition^2	Pamphlets Mentioning Coal and Transition^3
Australian Labor Party	6	N/A	N/A
National Party of Australia	6	3	2
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation	13	N/A	N/A
The Greens	5	N/A	N/A
Independents	5	1	N/A
Don’t Go Cold on Coal	N/A	1	N/A
Mining and Energy Union	N/A	2	N/A
Advance Australia	N/A	N/A	1

Table 3. Interview Participants Background Information.

	Gender	Occupation/Role	Time in the Singleton Area	Connection to the Coal Industry
Participant One	Female	Oil Tester	22 Years	Indirectly employed by the coal industry and the daughter of a coal-fired power station worker.
Participant Two	Female	Miner	40 Years	Directly employed at a local coal mine driving trucks (has done this for 12 years across both the Hunter and Queensland).
Participant Three	Male	Real Estate Agent	57 Years	No connection to the coal industry.
Participant Four^4	Male	Retired Power Station Worker	22 Years	Worked at a local coal-fired power station from the time of his arrival in the Singleton area until his retirement in 2019.
Participant Five	Female	Hairdresser	26 Years	The daughter and wife of coal miners.
Participant Six^5	Male	Farmer	77 Years	Lives and works on a property next door to a coal mine and worked in mining for a period to supplement his family’s farm income.
Participant Seven	Male	Staff Member at the Hunter Jobs Alliance	N/A	N/A
Participant Eight	Male	Staff Member at Singleton Council	N/A	N/A