Queensland mining magnate had been ordered to pay $13m after tribunal dismissed claim of being a ‘foreign investor’

Clive Palmer says he will challenge the decision of an international tribunal to dismiss his claim for $305bn in compensation from the commonwealth government, by appealing to a court in Switzerland.

On Saturday the attorney general, Michelle Rowland, announced that the permanent court of arbitration, in The Hague, the Netherlands, had ruled against the Queensland mining magnate.

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Two years after the tree was cut down, the National Trust says it wants to turn a sense of loss ‘into a sense of hope’

Artists are being asked for ideas to create a “nationally important” work from the wood of the illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree which, organisers hope, will be galvanising and inspiring.

The National Trust has revealed details of a huge creative commission, offering the chance for artists, organisations or creative agencies to use half of the tree’s timber to produce something incredible.

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