The 83-year-old who took on big coal and won

By Lucy Cormack
Updated April 25 2017 - 12:03am, first published April 24 2017 - 11:57pm
**EMBARGOED**  Wendy Bowman, has won the Goldman prize for the environment, which is awarded annually by the Goldman Foundation. Photographed at her property in Camberwell, Hunter Valley.  16th APRIL 2017 - PHOTO BY MARINA NEIL - NEWCASTLE HERALD Photo: Marina Neil
**EMBARGOED** Wendy Bowman, has won the Goldman prize for the environment, which is awarded annually by the Goldman Foundation. Photographed at her property in Camberwell, Hunter Valley. 16th APRIL 2017 - PHOTO BY MARINA NEIL - NEWCASTLE HERALD Photo: Marina Neil

The first time a mine forced Wendy Bowman off her Hunter Valley farm, it followed a four-year legal battle in which she fought to prove her land had been destroyed.

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