The picket line outside Rix's Creek mine near Singleton. Picture MEU

It has been more than 25 years since the region's coal miners went on strike for over six weeks, but with no end in sight to the dispute between the union and management at Rix's Creek mine near Singleton, this strike could create history.

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The Rix's Creek strike has now entered its seventh week and you would have to go back to the 1990s to find a strike of similar length.

In 1997, coal miners at Hunter Valley No 1 mine went on a protracted strike that garnered national coverage and interest from the then Prime Min

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