The mining oligarchs (Rinehart, Palmer and such) bet big on the conservatives winning power and undoing the energy transition Trump-fashion at the last election, and lost spectacularly. The conservatives are out of power, and it appears to be for a long time, so the chickens are coming home to roost. The government is by no means a radical one (regardless of what some of the more unhinged propaganda from the fossil-funded right says), though as the markets themselves are leaning towards renewables on economic grounds alone, they’re trying to balance this transition with keeping the economy stable. Hence officially promoting the transition and funding decarbonisation of energy whilst still approving coal mines.

Maybe, and? Do you believe it can change and/or has the right to change?

Quoting from the conference's page:

Hosting this summit in a major coal port, in the world’s fifth-largest coal producer, sends a powerful message: fossil-fuel-dependent nations want to end their dependence on oil, gas, and coal extraction, but doing so fairly requires unprecedented international cooperation so that no one is left behind.

The conference's page does not try to pretend that it's all shiny and perfect right now.

To what are you replying to really? Does it say anywhere in the original article that the new conference is about the reduction of coal use but not mining? I haven't found any indications of that; instead, I see mentions that they want to reduce overall "coal dependency" and "coal extraction":

transitioning away from fossil fuel extraction
oil, gas, and coal extraction
global effort to phase out coal

https://fossilfueltreaty.org/first-international-conference

I think such a trivial thought has come to the organizers of this conference and it's well addressed.

Negative our coal use is trending downwards:

https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=all&interval=1M&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed

We are a bit similar to Norway in that domestically we're doing great at pushing forward with renewables but we export most of our crap:

The main sources of domestic energy production from natural sources were:

• Black coal (11,092 PJ of which 89% was exported)
• Natural gas (5,724 PJ of which 78% was exported as LNG)
• Uranium (2,725 PJ of which 99% was exported)
• Crude oil, condensates and other petroleum products (750 PJ of which 79% was exported)

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/energy/energy-account-australia/2023-24

So we export fossil fuels but at home we're number one in the world:

Australia has the highest per capita solar capacity, now over 1.4kW.

We also I'm pretty certain (thanks to the Labor governments home battery subsidises) number one in the world with home battery installs:

“Based on the success of the program to date, we anticipate around 175,000 valid batteries to be installed by the end of 2025, representing around 3.9 GWh of useable capacity.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/households-on-track-to-add-five-biggest-batteries-in-six-months-as-rebate-installs-rocket-towards-175000/

When you can get a 40kwh home battery for 7000 AUD (~4500 USD) to hook up to your solar panels (which are getting bugger all for sending solar to the grid because we now have too much solar being generated now) and just about go off grid, why wouldn't you?

Sorry for long reply :X